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Secondary school in Sheffield

King Edward VII School

Glossop Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 2PW

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 01142662518

Ofsted

Goodas at 23 May 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 23 May 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

50.8 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

55% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

76% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

49% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.12confidence interval -0.31 to 0.08

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
35.1

England average 32.3

A level students
254

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1729
Places
1698
How full
Full — 1729 pupils against 1698 places
Girls / boys
903 / 826
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
29%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
29%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
89%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
55%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
222

After sixth form

Went to university
59%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
319

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

31% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
85%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
247

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Sheffield 036F, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
44%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
3%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
45%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
7%

England 17%

Households with no car
34%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
55%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Linda Gooden
Local authority
Sheffield
Ward
Broomhill and Sharrow Vale
Constituency
Sheffield Central
URN
107140

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Sheffield High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 0.1 mi
Westbourne SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Birkdale SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
Bethany SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
Notre Dame High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 52.8 0.9 mi
Tapton School & Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 58 1 mi
UTC Sheffield City CentreUniversity technical college No grade 39 1.1 mi
All Saints' Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.9 1.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Stockport SchoolCommunity school No grade 45.7
St Thomas More RC CollegeVoluntary aided school Good 2022 44
Ralph Thoresby SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 39.7
Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41.9
Challney High School for BoysAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 47.7
Cottingham High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 45.2
Salvatorian Roman Catholic CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 54.1
Alderman White SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 53.6

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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