Schools in Sheffield

140 schools with published admissions figures

The newest figures for each school. "1st prefs per place" is how many families put the school first, for each place it gave out. It measures demand, not whether a child would get a place. A dash means the figure is not available.

How the 2026 round went in Sheffield

Primary

Offered their first choice 95.1%
Of families applying for a primary place for September 2026. Against 90.1% in 2016.
Offered one of their three 98.9%
Families offered any of the schools they named.
Families who applied 5,415
Applications received for a primary place. A family naming three schools counts once.

For September 2026, 95.1% of families applying for a primary place here were offered their first choice, and 98.9% were offered one of the three schools they named.

That is 5.0 points higher than in 2016, when it was 90.1%.

The council's primary schools between them had 6,785 places for 5,415 applications. That is a total for the whole council and says nothing about any one school in it.

Secondary

Offered their first choice 88.7%
Of families applying for a secondary place for September 2026. Against 87.2% in 2016.
Offered one of their three 96.6%
Families offered any of the schools they named.
Families who applied 6,416
Applications received for a secondary place. A family naming three schools counts once.

For September 2026, 88.7% of families applying for a secondary place here were offered their first choice, and 96.6% were offered one of the three schools they named.

That is 1.5 points higher than in 2016, when it was 87.2%.

The council's secondary schools between them had 6,421 places for 6,416 applications. That is a total for the whole council and says nothing about any one school in it.

Source: Department for Education, applications and offers. The same round across England.

The rules Sheffield allocated under in 2026

From the council's own allocation reports for 2026, covering 17 schools. This is not the order of priority. The reports say how many children each rule admitted, never where the rule sits in the list, so these are ordered by the number of children and that is a different thing. For the rules in order, read the admission arrangements the admission authority publishes.

Used across the council

Recorded by most of its schools, so part of the council's standard scheme rather than one school's own arrangement.

Rule	Schools	Children admitted
Catchment	17	1,605
Catchment, with a sibling attending the school	15	986
Attends a feeder primary	14	397
Sibling will be attending the school in September	15	328
Pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan	15	146
Children looked after	13	41

Used by some schools only

Recorded by a minority of schools here, so more likely to belong to those schools' own arrangements than to the council's scheme.

Rule	Schools	Children admitted
Catchment, and attends a feeder primary	2	241
Last category, all other applications	8	189
Already on roll in the school's own primary phase	3	132

These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's. Source: the council's published allocation reports.

If a family is refused a place

In 2026, families in Sheffield lodged 544 appeals about a school place.

376 of them were heard by a panel and 111 succeeded, which is about 30 in every 100 heard.

The other 168 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026. Counts every school in this council area. The share that succeeded is taken over appeals heard by a panel, not over appeals lodged.

All Through

School	1st prefs per place	Demand since	Latest Ofsted
Astrea Academy Sheffield Sheffield	1.12	-	Good Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)
Hinde House 2-16 Academy Sheffield	1.12	-	Expected standard Ofsted report card (current framework)
Oasis Academy Don Valley Sheffield	1.03	-	Expected standard Ofsted report card (current framework)

Elsewhere

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