The School Record

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

Yewlands Academy

URN 145943 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Sheffield

Creswick Lane, Sheffield, S35 8NN

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 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, 160 families named Yewlands Academy as their first preference, and the school made 176 offers.

That is 0.91 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 39% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 39% 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 1.01 in 2021–2022 and 1.02 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 7 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 160 287 176 0.91
2024 201 338 177 1.14
2023 214 314 208 1.03
2022 219 321 207 1.06
2021 195 311 201 0.97
2020 237 377 178 1.33
2019 207 308 182 1.14

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 1 October 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: 9

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 37.30 - 51.2% 14.1%
2023/24 41.40 -0.35
likely between -0.58 and -0.12
58.5% 1.9%
2022/23 40.70 -0.40
likely between -0.62 and -0.18
56.4% 2.6%

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 58.0 44.8 7.0 6.2 22.8%
2023/24 58.0 45.2 7.0 5.8 22.1%
2022/23 55.3 42.5 6.0 6.8 23.1%
2021/22 58.0 26.6 17.2 14.2 54.1%
2020/21 51.3 47.3 1.0 3.0 7.8%
2019/20 50.9 37.5 5.6 7.8 26.3%

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 (Yewlands Academy), in force from 2025.

Covers: 383 live postcodes across 10.154 km².

24 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: 180

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 2.09 miles away (3370 m)

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

Children waiting for a place: 3

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
Attends a feeder primary81
Sibling will be attending the school in September51
Last category, all other applications27
Catchment17
Pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan4
All the children counted here180

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 Yewlands Academy. 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 Yewlands Academy.

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.