Lift Firth Park
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sheffield City Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lift Firth Park is a secondary school in Sheffield for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 17 June 2025. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Lift Firth Park 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 137 first-choice applications for 173 offers: 0.8 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 24 Sheffield secondary schools.
- In 2024/25, 25% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 32.7 (England 46).
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2025, as at all 8 other Sheffield secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 outcome.
- Free school meals eligibility stands at 55.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 30.6% across the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Fircroft Avenue, Sheffield, S5 0SD
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 1,115 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 55.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 17 June 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are starting to benefit from recent improvements.”
- “They recognise how these changes are beginning to help them to learn more in lessons.”
- “The school has put in place many strategies to support pupils prepare for public examinations.”
To improve
- “Over time, the school’s expectations of what pupils should achieve have not been high enough.”
- “Pupils have not achieved well in external examinations.”
- “Similarly, standards of behaviour have not been high enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 25% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 32.7 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 137 first-preference applications, 173 offers in total, 137 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Sheffield.
- Fir Vale Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mercia Northridge School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Yewlands Academy 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- E-Act Parkwood Academy 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ecclesfield School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park 2.1 mi Standards maintained
- Forge Valley School & Sixth Form 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- UTC Sheffield City Centre 3.6 mi Not judged