Sitwell Nursery & Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Rotherham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sitwell Nursery & Infant School is a primary school in Rotherham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Rotherham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Sitwell Nursery & Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 there were 59 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 54 went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- 9.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 25.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Rotherham.
- Its last graded Ofsted outcome was Outstanding (11 June 2014); the visit on 13 May 2025 was not judged.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Rotherham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Grange Road, Rotherham, S60 3LA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Rotherham
- Pupils on roll
- 221 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at the school are safe and happy.”
- “The school has high ambitions for pupils.”
- “Relationships are at the heart of the school.”
To improve
- “However, at times, these effective teaching approaches are not being used in some subjects.”
- “As a result, in a few subjects, some pupils are not developing the depth of knowledge that leaders intend.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 54 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Rotherham.
- Sitwell Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Whiston Junior and Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Herringthorpe Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged
- Herringthorpe Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broom Valley Community School 0.9 mi Good
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Badsley Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged