Fir Vale Academy
- Secondary
- Academy converter
- Ages 11 to 16
URN 151851 · Sheffield · UNITED LEARNING TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest full inspection
25 February 2025- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 2
From September 2024 until report cards began, full inspections gave key judgements but no overall grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Attendance
Against Sheffield and England, secondary schools.
Overall absence
2024/2523.0%
- England
- 8.4%
14.6 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
2024/2558.7%
- England
- 23.4%
35.3 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
2024/2516.4%
- England
- 3.9%
12.5 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 Sheffield and England, secondary schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/25Not publishedNot published for this school
- England
- 21.24
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
2024/25Not publishedNot published for this school
- England
- 0.23
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 4 results
Against Sheffield and England, secondary schools.
Attainment 8
2025/26 (provisional)23.7
- Sheffield
- 46.2
- England
- 47.4
23.7 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | Not published | 49.8 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | Not published | 47.2 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | Not published | 46.9 |
| 2024/25 | Not published | Not published | 47.1 |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 23.7 | 46.2 | 47.4 |
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)28%
- Sheffield
- 65%
- England
- 66%
38 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | Not published | 70% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | Not published | 67% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | Not published | 67% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | Not published | 66% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 28% | 65% | 66% |
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)16%
- Sheffield
- 48%
- England
- 48%
32 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | Not published | 51% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | Not published | 46% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | Not published | 47% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | Not published | 47% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 16% | 48% | 48% |
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.
Teachers
Against Sheffield and England, secondary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2616.3
- Sheffield
- 17.9
- England
- 17.3
1.0 lower than England.
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
2024/25Not publishedNot published for this school
- Sheffield
- 4.9 days
- England
- 5.0 days
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
- 931
- Capacity
- 1,050
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Trust
- UNITED LEARNING TRUST
- Opened
- 1 July 2025
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 1 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
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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