The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Carfield Primary School

URN 107087 · Primary · Community school · Sheffield

Argyle Close, Sheffield, S8 9HJ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 46 families named Carfield Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 47 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 50% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 50% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.76 in 2021–2022 and 0.89 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 46 109 47 0.98
2024 39 108 49 0.80
2023 60 123 63 0.95
2022 69 129 81 0.85
2021 54 125 80 0.68
2020 60 140 73 0.82
2019 47 110 62 0.76
2018 59 129 76 0.78
2017 75 133 77 0.97
2016 83 148 90 0.92
2015 87 163 89 0.98
2014 76 156 90 0.84

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 27 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 19 April 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Requires improvement

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 78.0% 20.0% 108.0 106.0
2023/24 65.0% 11.0% 106.0 106.0
2022/23 69.0% 5.0% 106.0 105.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 26.0 26.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 29.1 23.1 0.0 6.0 20.6%
2022/23 29.7 27.3 0.0 2.4 8.1%
2021/22 31.6 23.6 3.0 5.0 25.3%
2020/21 25.6 20.6 1.0 4.0 19.5%
2019/20 24.2 21.6 1.6 1.0 10.7%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Sheffield publishes an admission zone for this school (Carfield Primary School), in force from 2025.

Covers: 142 live postcodes across 1.578 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Meersbrook Bank Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

36 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Carfield Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Carfield Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.