[2] The school also hosts the North East Derbyshire Music Centre.

[4] In November 2012, headteacher Jackie Overton was suspended, along with two other staff, for undisclosed reasons.

[5] Shortly afterwards, the school was placed in special measures under the ruling of an acting headteacher, Martin Ebbage.

The school has broken the record for the highest number of exclusions locally.

[8] Outwood Academy Newbold offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils,[9] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.