Ecclesfield Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.573 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ecclesfield Primary School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 May 2024. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Ecclesfield Primary 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 2025 | 0.573 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2025's last distance offered was 0.573 miles, the shortest of 7 Sheffield primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance; it was nearer than in 2024.
- In 2024/25, 51% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield.
- For Reception 2026 there were 48 first-choice applications for 49 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 31.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 51.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sheffield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- High Street, Ecclesfield, Sheffield, S35 9UD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 411 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy school life at Ecclesfield Primary School.”
- “Pupils are happy and safe in school.”
- “They know they can talk to a trusted adult if anything is worrying them.”
To improve
- “However, outcomes in national tests and assessments for pupils at the end of Year 6 in 2023 were not as high as the school’s expectations.”
- “However, the school’s expectations of behaviour are sometimes not lived out as well as intended.”
- “However, the implementation of the curriculum is not consistent across all subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 51% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 48 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 48 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 Sheffield.
- Monteney Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Beck Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary, A Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Mansel Primary 0.9 mi Good
- Hartley Brook Primary School 0.9 mi Good
- Coit Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.2 mi Not judged
- Southey Green Nursery & Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published