 Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth excluded 34% of its pupils on fixed-term exclusions in 2017–2018, the second highest figure in the country, only to be beaten by Outwood Academy Ormesby who excluded 41%.In 2019 former teachers at the school reported a practice of intimidating 'flattening the grass assemblies', which the trust denied.Schoolsweek described what happened at a "flattening the grass assembly" at Outwood Academy City Fields.