Newsome Academy Overview

Newsome Academy is a secondary school located in Huddersfield and reports to the local authority of Kirklees.

Newsome Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 900 students but currently only enrols 753 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Newsome Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 41.6% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 26.7% of students at the school.

46.1% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Newsome Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities