Stocksbridge High School
Secondary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Stocksbridge High School is a secondary school in Sheffield for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Stocksbridge High 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 entry in 2026 there were 137 first-choice applications for 141 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2025 every Year 7 applicant was offered a place, as at all 8 other Sheffield secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 26% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 39.5 (England 46).
- Ofsted's latest inspection, on 12 May 2026, gave no single grade; the previous graded outcome, from 4 May 2022, was Good.
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
- Shay House Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 1FD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 784 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 12 May 2026
Strengths
- “A greater focus on attendance and improved pastoral support have helped to encourage some pupils back into education.”
- “Younger pupils attend much better than older ones.”
- “Pupils benefit from a more consistent educational experience than they once did.”
To improve
- “Pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “Pupils' achievement, particularly that of disadvantaged pupils, has declined significantly over time.”
- “While leaders have responded to this robustly, it is too early to see the fruits of those improvements.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 July 2026 (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) | 26% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.5 | 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, 141 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.
- Bradfield Secondary School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Yewlands Academy 5.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ecclesfield School 5.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Mercia Northridge School 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Forge Valley School & Sixth Form 6.4 mi Good Last distance published
- E-Act Parkwood Academy 6.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lift Firth Park 7.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tapton School & Sixth Form 7.7 mi Not judged Last distance published