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Rooks Nest Academy

Rooks Nest Academy
Rooks Nest Road
Outwood
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
England
WF13DX

📞 phone: 01924 870700

👩‍🏫 headteacher: Ms Kimberley Dawson

🌍 web: www.rooksnestacademy.co.uk


340 pupils mixed gender
315 pupils capacity: 108% full

186 boys 55%

154 girls 45%

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Trust school
Supported by a single-academy trust
URN
137438
Education phase
Primary
Establishment type
Academy converter
Establishment #
2131
Open date
1. September 2011
Reason open
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OSGB coordinates
Easting: 433254, Northing: 423754
GPS coordinates
Latitude: 53.709, Longitude: -1.4977
Accepting pupils
2—11 years old
Boarders
No boarders
Census date
20. January 2022
Region › Const. › Ward
Yorkshire and the Humber › Morley and Outwood › Stanley and Outwood East
Free school meals %
9.20
Trust
ROOKS NEST ACADEMY
Learning provider ref #
10035067

School governors

  • Kimberley Dawson, Accounting Officer
    (1. September 2014—None)
  • Father John W Butterworth, Member
    (26. May 2016—None)
  • Mr David Hennessy, Member
    (1. April 2016—None)
  • Mr Richard Overton, Trustee
    (19. January 2021—18. January 2025)
  • Miss Katy Firth, Trustee
    (19. September 2018—18. September 2022)
  • Mr Christopher Rowell, Trustee
    (19. September 2018—18. September 2022)
  • Dr Roy Long, Trustee
    (19. September 2018—18. September 2022)
  • Mrs Gillian Whitehouse, Chief Financial Officer
    (1. September 2018—None)
  • Mr Paul Robert Brennan, Trustee
    (27. November 2019—26. November 2023)
  • Father Jonathan Bish, Chair of Trustees
    (20. September 2022—17. January 2023)
  • Mrs Joanne Louise Smith, Trustee
    (28. September 2021—27. September 2025)
  • Mrs Joanna Longfellow, Trustee
    (15. March 2022—17. January 2023)
  • Miss Alexandra Foster, Trustee
    (15. March 2022—14. March 2026)
  • Mr Joe Yates, Member
    (14. December 2021—None)
  • Mr Dale Wooffindin, Member
    (10. December 2019—None)
  • Miss Katy Firth, Trustee
    (20. September 2022—19. September 2026)
  • Mrs Sherice Parfitt, Trustee
    (20. September 2022—22. March 2023)
  • Mrs Louise Elizabeth Harper, Trustee
    (18. October 2022—17. October 2026)
  • Mrs Joanna Longfellow, Chair of Trustees
    (18. January 2023—17. March 2024)
  • Mrs Rosanne Lilian Steel, Trustee
    (17. January 2023—16. January 2027)
  • Mrs Natalie Emma Lomas, Trustee
    (17. January 2023—16. January 2027)
  • Mrs Stephanie Jayne Shaw, Member
    (17. January 2023—None)
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