Academy sponsor led · Primary
Barnsley · S73 9LT · Barnsley
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 138615
Upperwood Academy
Academy converter · Barnsley · S73 9NL
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
298
Local authority
Barnsley
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 4–11, in Barnsley, Barnsley, 298 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 29.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138615
Location
- Address
- Dartree Walk, Darfield
- Postcode
- S73 9NL
- Town
- Barnsley
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- District
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 298
- Boys / girls
- 154 / 144
- School capacity
- 252
- Capacity fill
- 298 / 252 (118%)
- Free school meals
- 29.2%
- FSM pupils
- 87
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: HCAT
- Academy trust
- HCAT
- Sponsor
- HCAT
Contact
- Headteacher
- Ange Brown
- Telephone
- 01226754336
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Standards maintained
Inspection date
2025-09-08
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 75%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 11%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0