Bradfield Secondary School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–19 · 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 🔒
Bradfield Secondary School is a secondary school in Sheffield for ages 11–19 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 June 2025. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Bradfield Secondary 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
- In 2024/25, 54% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 49.2 (England 46).
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 213 first-choice applications for 232 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place and 19 offers going to families ranking it lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 16.5%, against a middle figure of 27.2% across the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Kirk Edge Road, Sheffield, S35 0AE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 1,006 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 June 2025
Strengths
- “The school is rapidly improving.”
- “After a difficult period of change, things are now much more stable and settled.”
- “Pupils are developing trust in the new leaders and staff who have recently joined the school.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, adaptations are not thought through carefully enough to ensure that all pupils fully secure the intended learning.”
- “Some pupils with SEND need support to participate in the world of work.”
- “One or two areas, such as democracy and the rule of law, are less well remembered, particularly in key stage 4.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 July 2025 (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) | 54% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.2 | 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: 213 first-preference applications, 232 offers in total, 213 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.
- Forge Valley School & Sixth Form 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Mercia Northridge School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Yewlands Academy 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- E-Act Parkwood Academy 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tapton School & Sixth Form 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Notre Dame High School 3.8 mi Good
- Ecclesfield School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- King Edward VII School 4.0 mi Good Last distance published