Astrea Academy Sheffield
All-through · Free schools · Ages 2–18 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.616 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Astrea Academy Sheffield is an all-through school in Sheffield for ages 2–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
Astrea Academy Sheffield 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 | 1.616 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| 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, the last child offered a place lived 1.616 miles away, further than in 2025; it swung sharply between some years, most from 2025 to 2026.
- In 2026 Year 7 entry, 184 first-choice applications for 165 offers: 158 offers went to first-choice families, and 26 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, the A level average grade was C+ (England B-), with progress from GCSE to A level average.
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
- Andover Street, Sheffield, S3 9BE
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 2–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 1,070 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders are passionate about ensuring that pupils receive an ambitious curriculum.”
- “Pupils across the school benefit from a good quality of education.”
- “They are supported by kind teachers who help them to do well.”
To improve
- “However, too many secondary-age pupils receive detentions and suspensions.”
- “Too many of these are the result of a cumulation of negative points for minor transgressions.”
- “Parents of these pupils are concerned by this.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 January 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) | 47% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45.4 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 16 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 16 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 184 first-preference applications, 165 offers in total, 158 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Sheffield.
- Bethany School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Seven Hills School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Willow Park School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oasis Academy Don Valley 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Discovery Academy 1.7 mi Not judged
- Sheffield High School GDST 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Westbourne School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Birkdale School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade