The School Record

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

Stocksbridge High School

URN 145274 · Secondary · Academy converter · Sheffield

Shay House Lane, Sheffield, S36 1FD

Ofsted category of concern: Requires significant improvement

At its inspection on 12 May 2026 (Ofsted report card (current framework)), this school was placed in the category requires significant improvement.

Ofsted judged that one or more key areas of the school's performance needed significant improvement, while leaders had the capacity to improve. This category replaced “serious weaknesses”.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 159 families named Stocksbridge High School as their first preference, and the school made 163 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 54% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 54% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.92 in 2021–2022 and 0.98 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 8 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 159 322 163 0.98
2024 168 314 170 0.99
2023 150 302 164 0.91
2022 149 261 170 0.88
2021 143 249 149 0.96
2020 150 277 159 0.94
2019 199 330 179 1.11
2018 145 241 162 0.90

“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 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 12 May 2026

Category of concern: Requires significant improvement

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Urgent improvement

Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement

Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention

Leadership and governance: Needs attention

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 4 May 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 39.50 - 52.7% 19.6%
2023/24 41.60 -0.77
likely between -0.99 and -0.56		 56.9% 25.9%
2022/23 42.50 -0.40
likely between -0.62 and -0.18		 53.1% 25.0%

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.

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 46.6 35.3 3.8 7.5 24.2%
2023/24 44.8 37.4 2.6 4.8 16.5%
2022/23 45.5 39.1 4.0 2.4 14.1%
2021/22 46.7 41.3 2.0 3.4 11.6%
2020/21 45.6 43.2 0.8 1.6 5.3%
2019/20 40.0 39.0 1.0 0.0 2.5%

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 (Stocksbridge High School), in force from 2025.

Covers: 327 live postcodes across 56.516 km².

2 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 Stocksbridge High 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 secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Stocksbridge High 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.