# Outwood Academy Carlton — Barnsley, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 2.1/5 from 11 published reviews
- **Founded:** 2016
- **Principal:** Paul Taylor

## Contact

- **Address:** Outwood Academy Carlton, Royston Lane, Barnsley, S71 3EW
- **Phone:** 01226 728494
- **Website:** https://www.carlton.outwood.com/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/barnsley/outwood-academy-carlton-14413

## About

We are a welcoming and supportive academy with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place students at the centre of everything we do and focus on creating a culture of success and a positive climate for learning.

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jan 2019
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jan 2019

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — I would NEVER recommend this school: Completely unprofessional school who fail to deal with bullying and do not have their priorities in order. Students are sent home or put in isolation due to tiny details such as a simple ear piercing, regardless of whether they are taking a mock exam or real GCSE exam (this happened to my daughter). The students are punished, even if they do not misbehave and this has impacted many mental health issues on young people. *(Nov 2024)*
- **1/5** — If you can avoid this school. Please do. Staff are terrible!: The worse school ever. Our child is at the school in. Y7 for little than 4 weeks. No guidance to homework, lessons, teachers. All my child is now bothered about since starting is the food at break. Half the time the kids don’t know if they do or don’t know about homework. I asked them about their French homework they said, “what do I care, teacher will just think I am thick anyway. I said to teacher why do I need this and they just shrugged.” Lord give me strength. They said it just where all na… *(Oct 2023)*
- **1/5** — I hate this school: I hate this school it make me want to kill my self because I went to that school I want to moved back from where I was born it's terrible *(Jun 2023)*
- **4/5** — Some positives and areas for improvement: We're generally happy with our experience at Outwood Academy Carlton, but there are a few areas where we think the school could improve. The curriculum is engaging and the school's emphasis on student well-being is great, but sometimes we feel that communication with parents could be better. We'd like to see more regular updates on our child's progress and more involvement in school decisions. *(Mar 2023)*
- **5/5** — Excellent teachers and facilities!: Outwood Academy Carlton has exceeded our expectations. The teachers are supportive and passionate about their subjects, and the facilities are modern and well-maintained. My child has thrived in their classes and we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this community. *(Sep 2022)*
- **5/5** — Transforming lives, indeed!: Our child attended Outwood Academy Carlton from Year 7 to 11 and had an incredible experience. The values-driven approach and focus on student well-being really made a difference in their confidence and academic progress. We're so proud of the person they've become! *(Jun 2021)*
- **3/5** — My opinion!: As far as teachers go, they’re SO nice. I have little teachers I dislike. The praise system is a bit corrupt as misbehaving kids get more praise for behaving than kids who behave every single lesson. Sure I may fly under the radar sometimes, but teachers know I work hard and I don’t get rewarded for it. It doesn’t bother me TOO much, but other people must be annoyed. And the same people get the awards all the time! Fights happened almost every day a couple years ago but they’ve calmed down now a… *(Jun 2021)*
- **1/5** — TERRIBLE!: Terrible Don't know how to teach *(Jan 2021)*
- **3/5** — Review: Not that great in the mental health department, they don’t give the amount of support needed however a lot of the teachers are lovely and great to work with and make the classroom environment fun. Some can make the environment negative when it comes to students misbehaving. When it comes to dealing with bullying.. they have a good system but a lot of the students don’t care about it and make jokes when they get detentions as if it’s a laughing matter. *(Jan 2021)*
- **3/5** — Outwood Academy Carlton Review: Always at least one fight happening at lunch. If you get on with your work and don't mess around the teachers won't care about you. They say they care about student's mental health but don't do anything about bullying. Teachers favourite the students who misbehave and treat them so much better than everyone else. All they care about is the GCSE results to make the school look better. *(Dec 2020)*

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