Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Sheffield
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry190 applications · 194 places offered · 115 named it first
- 2026 1.0; Sheffield median median 1.9
- 2025 1.1; Sheffield median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2024 1.2; Sheffield median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2023 1.1; Sheffield median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 1.2; Sheffield median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2021 1.0; Sheffield median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 1.3; Sheffield median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.4; Sheffield median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2018 1.6; Sheffield median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.7; Sheffield median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 1.7; Sheffield median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.8; Sheffield median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2014 1.9; Sheffield median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Sheffield median
Dashed bars: as Fir Vale School (URN 138925), the previous school.
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 194 | 190 | 1.0 | 115 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2025 * | 189 | 213 | 1.1 | 143 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2024 * | 188 | 232 | 1.2 | 156 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2023 * | 206 | 223 | 1.1 | 162 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2022 * | 207 | 252 | 1.2 | 185 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2021 * | 208 | 205 | 1.0 | 155 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2020 * | 218 | 272 | 1.3 | 187 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2019 * | 206 | 282 | 1.4 | 187 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2018 * | 210 | 333 | 1.6 | 207 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2017 * | 231 | 382 | 1.7 | 278 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2016 * | 209 | 350 | 1.7 | 258 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2015 * | 210 | 378 | 1.8 | 283 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2014 * | 210 | 390 | 1.9 | 280 | 1.33 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 180 | 23.7 | 16% | 28% | – |
| 2024/25 | – | ||||
| 2023/24 * | 182 | 25.5 | 11% | 27% | −1.09 |
| 2022/23 * | 180 | 26.8 | 17% | 28% | −1.09 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Fir Vale AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.0applications per place 23.7Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Sheffield20261.7applications per place 34.3Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · SheffieldStandards maintained202441.4Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Sheffield20261.9applications per place 43.7Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · SheffieldGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 36.7Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · SheffieldGood20221.5applications per place 46.9Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · SheffieldRemains Good20231.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · SheffieldGraded · no overall grade2025
- 3.8 km · SheffieldGraded · no overall grade202539.2Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 151851 · 373/4018
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 931 on roll
- Free school meals
- 72.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 July 2025
- Replaced
- Fir Vale School (URN 138925)
- Address
- Owler Lane, Sheffield, S4 8GB
- Local authority
- Sheffield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources