Outwood Primary Academy Darfield
Darfield, S73 9LT · Barnsley local authority
Darfield’s School Grade C− better than 21% of towns in England
What stands out about Outwood Primary Academy Darfield
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 77% of England’s primary schools
- 72% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10 points above England’s schools
- Over capacity: 221 pupils for 210 places
- Ofsted: Good, April 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 31)
- Homes in its postcode sector (S73 9) sold for a median £159,000; Darfield’s is £155,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 72%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 77% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Barnsley avg 63%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Outwood Primary Academy Darfield?
90% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (4), 2023 (1), 2024 (1), 2026 (3). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Outwood Grange Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Barnsley council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
90% got their first choice
Darfield and Barnsley, side by side
2023–2025All 75 graded primaries in Barnsley. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Darfield’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silkstone Primary School | A+ | 7% | 83% |
| Hunningley Primary Academy | A+ | 37% | 83% |
| Brierley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | A | 21% | 82% |
| Thurgoland Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School | A | 8% | 81% |
| Summerfields Primary Academy | A | 15% | 81% |
| Silkstone Common Junior and Infant School | A | 7% | 80% |
| Cawthorne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | A | 1% | 79% |
| Birdwell Primary School | A | 21% | 79% |
| Mapplewell Primary School | A | 13% | 78% |
| Springvale Primary School | A | 12% | 77% |
| Gawber Primary School | A | 6% | 77% |
| Bank End Primary Academy | A | 47% | 76% |
| Parkside Primary Academy | A− | 28% | 75% |
| Oakwell Rise Primary Academy | A− | 43% | 75% |
| Upperwood Academy | A− | 29% | 72% |
| Outwood Primary Academy Darfield | A− | 33% | 72% |
| Lift Meadstead | A− | 44% | 71% |
| Hoyland Common Primary School | A− | 17% | 71% |
| Tankersley St Peter's CofE (Aided) Primary School | B+ | 10% | 70% |
| Highgate Primary Academy | B+ | 45% | 70% |
| Laithes Primary School | B+ | 49% | 70% |
| Keresforth Primary School | B+ | 16% | 69% |
| Birkwood Primary School | B+ | 33% | 69% |
| Lift Shafton | B+ | 26% | 69% |
| Milefield Primary School | B+ | 38% | 69% |
| The Forest Academy | B+ | 42% | 68% |
| Oxspring Primary School | B | 10% | 67% |
| Athersley South Primary School | B | 40% | 67% |
| Shawlands Primary School | B | 21% | 66% |
| Churchfield Primary School | B | 30% | 66% |
| Barugh Green Primary School | B | 11% | 66% |
| Burton Road Primary School | B | 17% | 65% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Barnsley | B | 9% | 65% |
| Carlton Primary Academy | B | 19% | 65% |
| Penistone St John's Voluntary Aided Primary School | B− | 14% | 64% |
| Dodworth St John the Baptist CofE Primary Academy | B− | 23% | 64% |
| Sandhill Primary School | B− | 44% | 64% |
| Kexborough Primary School | B− | 25% | 64% |
| Wilthorpe Primary School | B− | 19% | 64% |
| Millhouse Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Joseph Locke Primary School | B− | 32% | 63% |
| Outwood Primary Academy Littleworth Grange | B− | 42% | 63% |
| Worsbrough Common Primary School | B− | 32% | 63% |
| Goldthorpe Primary Academy | B− | 49% | 63% |
| Wellgate Primary School | B− | 24% | 62% |
| Cherry Dale Primary School | B− | 35% | 61% |
| Oakhill Primary Academy | B− | 24% | 61% |
| Queens Road Academy | C+ | 28% | 60% |
| Wombwell Park Street Primary School | C+ | 24% | 60% |
| Ward Green Primary School | C+ | 29% | 59% |
| Lacewood Primary School | C+ | 33% | 58% |
| Royston St John Baptist CE Primary | C+ | 28% | 58% |
| Greenfield Primary School | C+ | 33% | 58% |
| Holy Rood Catholic Primary School | C | 23% | 57% |
| Heather Garth Primary School Academy | C | 37% | 57% |
| Elsecar Holy Trinity CofE Primary Academy | C | 23% | 56% |
| High View Primary Learning Centre | C | 37% | 56% |
| Thurlstone Primary School | C | 8% | 55% |
| Gooseacre Primary Academy | C | 42% | 55% |
| The Mill Academy | C | 42% | 55% |
| Ladywood Primary School | C | 34% | 55% |
| The Hill Primary Academy | C | 56% | 54% |
| St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School | C− | 29% | 53% |
| The Ellis Church of England Primary School | C− | 10% | 53% |
| Holy Trinity Catholic and Church of England School | C− | 32% | 50% |
| Carrfield Primary Academy | C− | 37% | 49% |
| Lift St Helen's | C− | 35% | 49% |
| Darton Primary School | C− | 18% | 49% |
| All Saints Academy Darfield | D | 40% | 46% |
| West Meadows Primary School | D | 41% | 46% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | D | 27% | 45% |
| Kings Oak Primary | D | 33% | 45% |
| Athersley North Primary School | D | 56% | 42% |
| Hoyland Springwood Primary School | D | 52% | 41% |
| St Helen's Catholic Primary School | D | 41% | 39% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025221 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Outwood Primary Academy Darfield’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, April 2024.
Living near Outwood Primary Academy Darfield
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in S73 9, the school’s postcode sector
Darfield property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in S73 9 sell for about the same as Darfield’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
8 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Darfield, S73 9LT
Outwood Primary Academy Darfield: common questions
Is Outwood Primary Academy Darfield a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 77% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 72% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, April 2024.
How hard is it to get into Outwood Primary Academy Darfield?
For September 2026, 31 families put Outwood Primary Academy Darfield first and 28 of them were offered a place; 28 places were offered in all.
What is Outwood Primary Academy Darfield’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (April 2024).
How much do houses cost near Outwood Primary Academy Darfield?
Homes in its postcode sector, S73 9, sold for a median £159,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (227 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Darfield’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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