Wath Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Rotherham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Not published
From Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wath Academy is a secondary school in Rotherham for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. Rotherham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wath Academy 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 2026 | Not published |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026, there were 479 first-choice applications for 322 offers; 321 offers went to first-choice families, and 158 first-choice families (33%) were not offered a place.
- That is 1.5 first choices per offer for Year 7 in 2026, the 2nd highest of 16 Rotherham secondary schools.
- For Year 7 2026, 270 of the 737 applications (37%) came from families living outside Rotherham, and 36 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 45% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 47.8 (England 46).
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
- Sandygate, Wath-on-Dearne, Rotherham, S63 7NW
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Rotherham
- Pupils on roll
- 2,104 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils learn to have the highest expectations of success at this inclusive school.”
- “They aim to achieve standards of high aspirations, act with integrity and adopt a positive mindset in all they do.”
- “Pupils say they enjoy lessons and feel challenged and supported by teachers.”
To improve
- “In a minority of subjects at key stage 3 and key stage 4, assessment is not consistently used to identify precisely how pupils are to improve.”
- “Where this happens, teachers do not always act on assessment to ensure that pupils are clear on their next steps.”
- “This has an impact on pupils’ success in building and remembering more knowledge over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 September 2023 (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) | 45% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.8 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
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: 479 first-preference applications, 322 offers in total, 321 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 Rotherham.
- Saint Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Swinton Academy 1.2 mi Good
- Rawmarsh Community School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Thrybergh Academy 3.6 mi Requires improvement
- Wingfield Academy 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clifton Community School 4.4 mi Some aspects not as strong
- Winterhill School 4.8 mi School remains Good
- St Bernard's Catholic High School 5.0 mi Good Last distance published