Community special school

Oakfield Park School

Mixed · ages 11–19 · with sixth formWakefield, Yorkshire and the Humber · Pontefract WF7 7DTSchool website
Pupils on roll
176of 162 places
Free school meals
62.9%
Year 11 cohort 2025
25
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 5 March 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 16 pupils who finished Year 11 at Oakfield Park School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Oakfield Park School’s own sixth form (Wakefield average 12%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Wakefield and England.

Oakfield Park School
Wakefield
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureOakfield Park SchoolWakefieldEngland
Pupils in the cohort163,844607,348
Any sustained destination100%89%92%
Stayed in education100%82%86%
— school sixth form0%12%34%
— sixth form college0%28%13%
— further education college0%41%37%
— other education100%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%4%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination0%8%6%
Destination unknown0%3%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Other secondary schools in Wakefield

Airedale Academy

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,008 pupils

79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.8

Castleford Academy

Academy converter · 1,480 pupils

81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.5

Crofton Academy

Academy converter · 1,045 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.5

De Lacy Academy

Academy converter · 853 pupils

70% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.6

Horbury Academy

Academy converter · 1,070 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.7

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.