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Secondary school in Sheffield

Meadowhead School Academy Trust

Dyche Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8BR

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Full
School website 01142372723

Ofsted

Goodas at 7 June 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 7 June 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 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

46 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

41% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

64% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

28% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.04confidence interval -0.12 to 0.20

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
37

England average 32.3

A level students
132

Pupils

Pupils on roll
2006
Places
1950
How full
Full — 2006 pupils against 1950 places
Girls / boys
1074 / 932
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
36%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
11%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
9%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
84%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
45%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
326

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
154

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

33% 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
75%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
118

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 064F, 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
40%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
91%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
11%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
MEADOWHEAD SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Kam Grewal-Joy
Local authority
Sheffield
Ward
Beauchief and Greenhill
Constituency
Sheffield Heeley
URN
138545

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Newfield Secondary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.9 1.5 mi
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 50 1.7 mi
Mercia SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 68.1 2 mi
Sheffield Springs AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.9 2.7 mi
King Ecgbert SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.1 2.8 mi
The Birley AcademyAcademy converter No grade 37.2 2.9 mi
Silverdale SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 56.7 3 mi
High Storrs SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 61 3 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 AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 47
Kingswood Secondary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 42.9
Michaela Community SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 77.6
Chiltern AcademyFree schools Good 2023 49.5
Stantonbury SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 32.8
Cowley AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.5
St Michael's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 48.9
Beacon Hill Community SchoolCommunity school No grade 28.8

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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