The School Record

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

Oasis Academy Don Valley

URN 140394 · All Through · Academy sponsor led · Sheffield

Leeds Road, Sheffield, S9 3TY

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 51 families named Oasis Academy Don Valley as their first preference, and the school made 52 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 51% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 51% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.14 in 2021–2022 and 0.98 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 51 103 52 0.98
2024 56 114 57 0.98
2023 56 112 56 1.00
2022 66 118 60 1.10
2021 71 134 60 1.18
2020 61 125 60 1.02
2019 66 144 60 1.10
2018 61 124 60 1.02
2017 49 109 52 0.94
2016 32 83 34 0.94
2015 14 33 17 0.82

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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), 19 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 15 November 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 36.80 - 47.9% 28.9%
2023/24 36.10 -0.59
likely between -0.85 and -0.33
42.0% 26.1%
2022/23 37.50 -0.13
likely between -0.40 and 0.15
49.1% 26.3%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 51.0% 3.0% 100.0 99.0
2023/24 59.0% 5.0% 101.0 101.0
2022/23 51.0% 11.0% 100.0 100.0

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 49.0 30.0 8.2 10.8 38.8%
2023/24 56.5 35.0 13.9 7.6 38.1%
2022/23 59.9 39.3 9.0 11.6 34.4%
2021/22 53.9 36.3 10.8 6.8 32.7%
2020/21 42.0 37.4 1.0 3.6 11.0%
2019/20 28.6 26.6 2.0 0.0 7.0%

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 (Oasis Academy Don Valley (Primary phase)), in force from 2025.

Covers: 235 live postcodes across 4.015 km².

44 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.

Sheffield publishes an admission zone for this school (Oasis Academy Don Valley (Secondary phase)), in force from 2025.

Covers: 488 live postcodes across 13.151 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Hinde House 2-16 Academy and Sheffield Park Academy. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

43 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.

How places were allocated

Sheffield publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.

2026 intake

Places offered: 150

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 1.2 miles away (1931 m)

These distances are measured in a straight line across the map.

Children waiting for a place: 19

How the places were shared out

Schools that get more applications than they have places have to choose. Each school has a list of rules, and it works down the list until the places run out. Sheffield publishes how many children got in under each rule. These are Sheffield's own names for its own rules, so they do not mean the same thing at a school in another area.

2026 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment61
Already on roll in the school's own primary phase50
Catchment, with a sibling attending the school29
Sibling will be attending the school in September5
Pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan3
Attends a feeder primary2
All the children counted here150

A rule that let nobody in that year is not listed. Some children are given a place at a school they did not ask for, because they have to go somewhere, and no rule applies to them.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Oasis Academy Don Valley. 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 3 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Oasis Academy Don Valley.

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.