Wickersley Northfield Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Rotherham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wickersley Northfield Primary School is a primary school in Rotherham for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 March 2023. Rotherham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Wickersley Northfield 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 23% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 50 first-choice applications for 53 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- There are 24.6 pupils per teacher, above the middle figure of 22.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Rotherham.
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
- Northfield Lane, Wickersley, Rotherham, S66 2HL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Rotherham
- Pupils on roll
- 443 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 March 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders at Wickersley Northfield establish high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and academic success.”
- “A pupil told an inspector, ‘Our teachers are always trying to push you to do your best.”
- “This starts in early years, where teachers establish consistent behaviour routines.”
To improve
- “However, a few pupils are less confident than others in speaking with adults.”
- “Some pupils struggle with multiplication tables in the older year groups.”
- “This affects how quickly and accurately they complete some calculations.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 2023 (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) | 77% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 53 offers in total, 50 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.
- St Alban's CofE (Aided) Primary School 0.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Flanderwell Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Bramley Sunnyside Infant School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bramley Sunnyside Junior School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Listerdale Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good
- Bramley Grange Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Trinity Croft CofE Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good
- Ravenfield Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published