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Secondary school in Sheffield

Notre Dame High School

Fulwood Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 3BT

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 01142302536

Ofsted

Goodas at 25 January 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 25 January 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

52.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

54% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

72% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

53% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.69confidence interval 0.49 to 0.88

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above 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
35.4

England average 32.3

A level students
200

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1491
Places
1328
How full
Full — 1491 pupils against 1328 places
Girls / boys
795 / 696
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
16%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
16%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
24%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
97%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
70%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
210

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
206

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
87%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
224

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 038C, 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
22%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
2%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
70%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
20%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
73%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ST CLARE CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Deirdre Cleary
Local authority
Sheffield
Ward
Fulwood
Constituency
Sheffield Hallam
URN
138361

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Tapton School & Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 58 0.2 mi
Birkdale SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
Westbourne SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Sheffield High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
King Edward VII SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 50.8 0.9 mi
High Storrs SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 61 1.1 mi
Silverdale SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 56.7 1.6 mi
Bethany SchoolOther independent school No grade 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
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 50.4
Malcolm Arnold AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4
Barr Beacon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 51
Southfield School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2023 46.8
Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 48.1
Caludon Castle SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.5
St Thomas More Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47
Ruislip High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 54.1

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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