Sheffield has both primary and secondary schools covered on this page. Under the older single-grade system the primary and secondary schools here grade fairly similarly overall.
Choose your area of Sheffield
Sheffield is a big place, so schools near one neighbourhood may be a long way from another. Pick your area for a more local list of schools and how to get to them.
School admissions are run by the local authority where you live; the school may be in a different local authority (that is, it goes by your address rather than the school's). This area covers more than one local authority — mainly Sheffield and Derbyshire, Rotherham.
Apply through the council for the area where you live. In some parts of England there are two councils — a smaller district or borough council and a larger county council. Where that is the case, it is the county council that handles school admissions. If you are not sure which applies to you, use the “find your local authority” link above. Deadlines and admission rules vary by council, so always check its official pages. See also our guide to school admissions.
Primary schools in Sheffield
Our data covers 471 primary schools in the Sheffield area with an Ofsted inspection on record, together teaching roughly 127,792 pupils. 335 were last judged under Ofsted's older single-grade system, while 34 have already moved to the newer report card, so you'll see a mix of both on this page. A further 67 have a recent inspection that graded individual areas without giving an overall grade.
Among the schools graded the older way, 92% were judged Good or Outstanding, with 16 rated Outstanding. 28 were rated Requires improvement or Inadequate at their last visit.
By our Good School Finder score, Hallam Nursery & Primary School tops the primary list here, followed by Totley Primary School. The score is a rough shortlisting guide built from each school’s latest inspection, not an official Ofsted judgement, so open any school that interests you and read its full report.
401 of these schools were inspected in the last five years. 13 were last inspected before 2016, so their published grade may not reflect the school today — always check the current Ofsted report before deciding.
For families considering special educational needs (SEN) support, primary schools here have on average about 17.1% of pupils on SEN support and about 3.8% with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan (national averages are roughly 13% and 4-5% respectively). This indicates how common SEN provision is locally — context only, not a measure of quality; always contact a school's SENCo to discuss your child's needs.
If you're after a particular kind of school, Sheffield has 80 faith schools among its primary schools. Admission rules for these differ — check each school's criteria with the school and your local authority.
On intake, about 30.1% of pupils at these primary schools are eligible for free school meals on average, close to the national average of roughly a quarter. This is background context to read results fairly — schools serving more disadvantage often add a lot of value that raw results understate — not a measure of quality, and not part of our score.
Primary schools here range from about 20 to 701 pupils (typically around 237), so there's a mix of smaller and larger settings to weigh up.
Based on the MHCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation, Sheffield is more deprived than the national average. Note this data relates to the wider neighbourhood, not the school. It is provided as context but is not a measure of the schools’ quality.
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Primary schools in Sheffield, ranked by the Good School Finder score.
#
School
Pupils
Class size
Postcode
Latest Ofsted
1
Hallam Nursery & Primary School
658
29.9
S10 4BD
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
2
Totley Primary School
424
30.2
S17 4FB
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
3
Norbridge Academy
465
30.2
S81 7HX
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
4
Stocksbridge Junior School
237
26.3
S36 1AS
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
5
Nether Edge Primary School
478
26.9
S7 1RB
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
6
Herringthorpe Junior School
354
29.6
S65 2JW
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
7
Loxley Primary School
207
29.8
S6 6SG
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
Our data covers 77 secondary schools in the Sheffield area with an Ofsted inspection on record, together teaching roughly 90,248 pupils. 45 were last judged under Ofsted's older single-grade system, while 13 have already moved to the newer report card, so you'll see a mix of both on this page. A further 17 have a recent inspection that graded individual areas without giving an overall grade.
Among the schools graded the older way, 87% were judged Good or Outstanding, with 3 rated Outstanding. 6 were rated Requires improvement or Inadequate at their last visit.
By our Good School Finder score, Tapton School & Sixth Form tops the secondary list here, followed by King Ecgbert School. The score is a rough shortlisting guide built from each school’s latest inspection, not an official Ofsted judgement, so open any school that interests you and read its full report.
For families considering special educational needs (SEN) support, secondary schools here have on average about 15% of pupils on SEN support and about 4% with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan (national averages are roughly 13% and 4-5% respectively). This indicates how common SEN provision is locally — context only, not a measure of quality; always contact a school's SENCo to discuss your child's needs.
71 of these schools were inspected in the last five years.
If you're after a particular kind of school, Sheffield has 10 faith schools among its secondary schools. Admission rules for these differ — check each school's criteria with the school and your local authority.
On intake, about 35.3% of pupils at these secondary schools are eligible for free school meals on average, higher than the national average of roughly a quarter. This is background context to read results fairly — schools serving more disadvantage often add a lot of value that raw results understate — not a measure of quality, and not part of our score.
Secondary schools here range from about 445 to 2,104 pupils (typically around 1,083), so there's a mix of smaller and larger settings to weigh up.
Based on the MHCLG Index of Multiple Deprivation, Sheffield is more deprived than the national average. Note this data relates to the wider neighbourhood, not the school. It is provided as context but is not a measure of the schools’ quality.
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Secondary schools in Sheffield, ranked by the Good School Finder score.
#
School
Pupils
Class size
Postcode
Latest Ofsted
1
Tapton School & Sixth Form
1,747
23.5
S10 5RG
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
2
King Ecgbert School
1,575
23.4
S17 3QU
Areas graded, lowest: OutstandingOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
3
St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy
1,400
28.5
S41 8AG
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
4
Trinity Academy St. Edwards
882
24.5
S70 6FP
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
5
Mercia School
1,070
23.7
S7 2DY
OutstandingInspected under the pre-2024 framework
6
Bradfield Secondary School
1,006
27.1
S35 0AE
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
7
The Birley Academy
1,061
24.2
S12 3BP
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
8
Outwood Academy Shafton
1,377
23.9
S72 8RE
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
9
UTC Sheffield City Centre
543
17.6
S1 4QF
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
10
Springwell Community College
836
26.5
S43 3NQ
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
11
Sheffield Springs Academy
1,083
27.1
S12 2SF
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
12
Outwood Academy Portland
1,706
21
S80 2SF
Areas graded, lowest: GoodOfsted inspection (individual areas graded)
Ofsted changed how schools are graded in 2024. Older inspections gave one overall grade — Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate. Newer inspections give a “report card” that grades several areas separately, with no single overall grade. The two systems measure different things, so an old grade and a new report card can’t be compared directly. We show whichever one a school has, and label which system it came from.
To let you see a whole town at a glance, we turn each school’s latest inspection into a single Good School Finder score out of 100. For older grades, Outstanding scores highest, then Good, then Requires improvement, then Inadequate. For newer report cards, we average the area grades onto the same 0–100 scale. It’s a rough guide to help you build a shortlist — not an official Ofsted judgement — so always open a school and read its full inspection before deciding. There’s more on how the score works on the About page.
How the lists are ordered
Schools are listed by their Good School Finder score, best first. Quite often several schools tie — for example, a town might have five Outstanding primaries. When that happens we don’t put them in a random order; we use the same simple rules every time, so the list looks the same each time you visit:
The Good School Finder score comes first — a higher score is listed higher.
If two schools have the same score, the one whose safeguarding was judged effective is listed above one where it was not.
If they still tie, the school inspected more recently comes first, because its grade is more likely to reflect the school as it is today.
If everything above is equal, we simply list them in alphabetical order by name.
So if two schools are both Outstanding, the one with effective safeguarding and a more recent inspection appears higher — never just by chance.