State secondary schools in Sheffield
29 schools · Yorkshire and the Humber · 2024/25 Department for Education figures
Sheffield has 29 state secondaries, 15 of them with sixth forms. 88.7% of families got their first choice last year, better than most of England. Results run from 19% to 82.6% passing English and maths, a spread of 64 points, with a middle school at 41%, below England's 45.4%.
Of those Ofsted has graded, 1 rated Outstanding, 14 Good, 1 Requires improvement. 13 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.
Sheffield against England
State-funded schools, 2024/25
Getting a place
2026/27 secondary admissions round, across Sheffield
88.7%
Got their first choiceof those who applied
England 84%
96.6%
Got one of their threefirst, second or third
0%
Got no offer at allfrom any preference
29%
Appeals upheld73 of 249 heard
These are figures for Sheffield as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works
How much the choice matters here
Across Sheffield's 29 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 19% to 83%. That is a spread of 64 percentage points, wider than most councils.
The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.
Sheffield schools, subject by subject
The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.
- 1 Mercia School Sheffield · 172 entries 97%
- 2 High Storrs School Sheffield · 223 entries 88%
- 3 Tapton School & Sixth Form Sheffield · 266 entries 88%
- 4 Silverdale School Sheffield · 170 entries 88%
- 5 King Ecgbert School Sheffield · 203 entries 83%
- 6 Bradfield Secondary School Sheffield · 204 entries 82%
- 7 All Saints' Catholic High School Sheffield · 198 entries 81%
- 8 Astrea Academy Sheffield Sheffield · 135 entries 81%
- 9 Forge Valley School & Sixth Form Sheffield · 239 entries 80%
- 10 Notre Dame High School Sheffield · 205 entries 78%
- 11 King Edward VII School Sheffield · 215 entries 77%
- 12 Newfield Secondary School Sheffield · 194 entries 77%
- 13 Outwood Academy City Sheffield · 209 entries 73%
- 14 Westfield School Sheffield · 236 entries 69%
- 15 UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park Sheffield · 95 entries 68%
- 16 Meadowhead School Academy Trust Sheffield · 315 entries 68%
- 17 Oasis Academy Don Valley Sheffield · 108 entries 65%
- 18 Stocksbridge High School Sheffield · 145 entries 64%
- 19 Yewlands Academy Sheffield · 167 entries 63%
- 20 UTC Sheffield City Centre Sheffield · 99 entries 63%
- 21 Sheffield Springs Academy Sheffield · 194 entries 62%
- 22 Ecclesfield School Sheffield · 349 entries 62%
- 23 Sheffield Park Academy Sheffield · 199 entries 61%
- 24 Lift Firth Park Sheffield · 214 entries 57%
- 25 Hinde House 2-16 Academy Sheffield · 185 entries 57%
- 26 The Birley Academy Sheffield · 210 entries 55%
- 27 Handsworth Grange Community Sports College Sheffield · 194 entries 55%
- 28 E-Act Parkwood Academy Sheffield · 155 entries 52%
- 29 Fir Vale Academy Sheffield · 189 entries 41%
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Every school in Sheffield
Schools in neighbouring authorities are not in this list, because admissions run per authority. See bordering areas.
4 of 28 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.
- All Saints' Catholic High School Sheffield · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 54%
- Attainment 8
- 49.9
- Absence
- 16%
- Astrea Academy Sheffield Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 47%
- Attainment 8
- 45.4
- Absence
- 22%
- Bradfield Secondary School Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 54%
- Attainment 8
- 49.2
- Absence
- 17%
- E-Act Parkwood Academy Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 36.5
- Absence
- 25%
- Ecclesfield School Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 32%
- Attainment 8
- 41.5
- Absence
- 25%
- Fir Vale Academy Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 19%
- Attainment 8
- 25.7
- Absence
- —
- Forge Valley School & Sixth Form Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 55%
- Attainment 8
- 46.6
- Absence
- 22%
- Handsworth Grange Community Sports College Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 36.6
- Absence
- 28%
- High Storrs School Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 74%
- Attainment 8
- 61
- Absence
- 13%
- Hinde House 2-16 Academy Sheffield · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 41.1
- Absence
- 24%
- King Ecgbert School Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 64%
- Attainment 8
- 56.1
- Absence
- 12%
- King Edward VII School Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 55%
- Attainment 8
- 50.8
- Absence
- 20%
- Lift Firth Park Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 25%
- Attainment 8
- 32.7
- Absence
- 31%
- Meadowhead School Academy Trust Sheffield · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 46
- Absence
- 23%
- Mercia School Sheffield · Outstanding.
- Eng & maths
- 83%
- Attainment 8
- 68.1
- Absence
- 9%
- Newfield Secondary School Sheffield · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 47.9
- Absence
- 20%
- Notre Dame High School Sheffield · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 54%
- Attainment 8
- 52.8
- Absence
- 12%
- Oasis Academy Don Valley Sheffield · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 36.8
- Absence
- 30%
- Outwood Academy City Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 40%
- Attainment 8
- 40.4
- Absence
- 30%
- Sheffield Park Academy Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 24%
- Attainment 8
- 35.1
- Absence
- 35%
- Sheffield Springs Academy Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 38%
- Attainment 8
- 38.9
- Absence
- 33%
- Silverdale School Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 70%
- Attainment 8
- 56.7
- Absence
- 12%
- Stocksbridge High School Sheffield · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 26%
- Attainment 8
- 39.5
- Absence
- 24%
- Tapton School & Sixth Form Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 68%
- Attainment 8
- 58
- Absence
- 14%
- The Birley Academy Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 37.2
- Absence
- 31%
- UTC Sheffield City Centre Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 23%
- Attainment 8
- 39
- Absence
- 25%
- UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park Sheffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 44%
- Attainment 8
- 44
- Absence
- 30%
- Westfield School Sheffield · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 38%
- Attainment 8
- 41.5
- Absence
- 28%
- Yewlands Academy Sheffield · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 30%
- Attainment 8
- 37.3
- Absence
- 29%
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Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
A levels in Sheffield
14 of Sheffield's 15 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.
- Mercia School C 38%
- Silverdale School C+ 30%
- UTC Sheffield City Centre D- 29%
- Meadowhead School Academy Trust C 26%
- High Storrs School C 24%
- Sheffield Park Academy C- 21%
- Tapton School & Sixth Form B- 21%
- Forge Valley School & Sixth Form C+ 18%
- Notre Dame High School C 17%
- King Edward VII School C+ 17%
- King Ecgbert School C+ 17%
- Astrea Academy Sheffield C- 13%
- All Saints' Catholic High School C+ 9%
- UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park D —
A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.
Bordering Sheffield
Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.
What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- First preference
- The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
- Average A-level grade
- The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.