Fir Vale Academy
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 🔒
Fir Vale Academy 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.
Fir Vale 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 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
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2025, as at all 8 other Sheffield secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 outcome.
- For Year 7 2026 there were 115 first-choice applications for 194 offers: 0.6 first choices per offer, the lowest of 24 Sheffield secondary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, and 79 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 72.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 44.9% 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
- Owler Lane, Sheffield, S4 8GB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 931 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 72.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 115 first-preference applications, 194 offers in total, 115 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.
- UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- Lift Firth Park 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- E-Act Parkwood Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mercia Northridge School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- UTC Sheffield City Centre 2.4 mi Not judged
- All Saints' Catholic High School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Yewlands Academy 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sheffield Park Academy 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published