Ballifield Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.494 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ballifield Primary School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 24 March 2022. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Ballifield 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 2026 | 1.494 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 1.494 miles away, the 8th longest of 25 Sheffield primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- For Reception 2026, there were 57 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 55 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 18.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield is 50.9%.
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
- Handsworth Grange Road, Sheffield, S13 9HH
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 459 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 March 2022
Strengths
- “Children enjoy coming to school and seeing their friends.”
- “They especially enjoy their richly resourced outdoor playground.”
- “These sectioned areas help pupils to behave well at playtimes.”
To improve
- “However, there are occasions when some pupils disrupt the learning of others.”
- “Leaders know that some subjects need their plans refining.”
- “There are inconsistencies in how the curriculum is constructed in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 2022 (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) | 59% | 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: 57 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 55 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.
- St Joseph's Primary School 0.3 mi Good
- Athelstan Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodhouse West Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged
- Brunswick Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stradbroke Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good
- Pipworth Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good
- Birley Spa Primary Academy 1.6 mi Requires improvement