Stannington Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.931 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2020–2022 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stannington Infant School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 13 December 2023. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Stannington Infant 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 | 0.931 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.931 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 7 Sheffield primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.40 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2025 was nearer the school than in 2022 and further than in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 59 first-choice applications for 59 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 12.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 10.6% across the 8 nearest primary 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
- Stannington Road, Sheffield, S6 6AN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 179 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 13 December 2023
Strengths
- “Stannington Infant School provides pupils with an exceptional education.”
- “The school has the highest expectations of what pupils can achieve and these expectations are realised.”
- “Pupils are extremely well prepared for the next stage of their education.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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 Sheffield.
- Nook Lane Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Shooter's Grove Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Loxley Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hallam Nursery & Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wisewood Nursery & Primary School 1.5 mi Good
- Malin Bridge Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Lydgate Infant School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bradfield Dungworth Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published