Newman School
- Special
- Academy special sponsor led
- Ages 2 to 19
URN 151166 · Rotherham · VENN ACADEMY TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest graded inspection
12 October 2022Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years provision
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form provision
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Schools with Serious Weaknesses Visit 1
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Attendance
Against Rotherham and England, special schools.
Overall absence
2024/2516.2%
- Rotherham
- 14.3%
- England
- 12.8%
3.4 percentage points higher than England.
Sessions missed for any reason, as a share of all possible sessions in the school year. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Persistent absence
2024/2542.9%
- Rotherham
- 36.5%
- England
- 35.3%
7.6 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Severe absence
2024/258.3%
- Rotherham
- 9.3%
- England
- 6.9%
1.4 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils who missed 50% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Rotherham and England, special schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/258.02
- Rotherham
- 23.20
- England
- 12.32
4.30 lower than England.
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Rotherham
- 0.08
- England
- 0.08
0.08 lower than England.
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Key stage 2 results
Against Rotherham and England, primary schools.
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard
2024/250%
Not compared with mainstream schools.
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| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | Not published |
| 2023/24 | Not published |
| 2024/25 | 0% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard
2024/250%
Not compared with mainstream schools.
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| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | Not published |
| 2023/24 | Not published |
| 2024/25 | 0% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Key stage 4 results
Against Rotherham and England, secondary schools.
Attainment 8
2025/26 (provisional)9.7
Not compared with mainstream schools.
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| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | Not published |
| 2024/25 | 2.8 |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 9.7 |
The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 4 or above
2025/26 (provisional)12%
Not compared with mainstream schools.
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| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | Not published |
| 2024/25 | 6% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 12% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 5 or above
2025/26 (provisional)0%
Not compared with mainstream schools.
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| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | Not published |
| 2024/25 | 0% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 0% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
Pupils
Against Rotherham and England, special schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2559.9%
- Rotherham
- 55.1%
- England
- 48.8%
11.1 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/250.0%
- Rotherham
- 0.1%
- England
- 0.5%
0.5 percentage points lower than England.
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/25100.0%
- Rotherham
- 99.9%
- England
- 99.5%
0.5 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/257.0%
- Rotherham
- 8.0%
- England
- 14.4%
7.4 percentage points lower than England.
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Rotherham and England, special schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/267.5
- Rotherham
- 8.5
- England
- 7.3
0.2 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Rotherham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 7.4 | 6.7 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 7.3 | 6.8 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 7.6 | 7.0 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 7.9 | 6.8 |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 7.5 | 6.9 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 8.1 | 7.0 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 8.2 | 7.1 |
| 2024/25 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.3 |
| 2025/26 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 7.3 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/256.7 days
- Rotherham
- 6.1 days
- England
- 5.0 days
1.7 days higher than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 185
- Capacity
- 185
- Type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Phase
- Special
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- VENN ACADEMY TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2024
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Rother Valley
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 7 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX
Website: www.newman.teameducation.org
Telephone: 01709828262
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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