School profile
Fir Vale Academy
Owler Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4 8GB
Overview
Fir Vale Academy is a state-funded school (academy converter) in Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 11–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Secondary
- Age range
- Ages 11–16
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 1,050
- Pupils on roll
- 931
- URN
- 151851
Admissions
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Academy trust or group
- UNITED LEARNING TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official admissions data
Applications & demand
Preferences expressed by families through coordinated admissions, shown over time.
2026/27 admissions · Year 7
- First preferences
- 115
- Total preferences
- 190
- Offers made
- 194
Times the school was named as a family's first preference.
All recorded preference positions for this school.
Offers recorded through coordinated admissions, not physical capacity.
First preferences compared with offers
0.59 first preferences per offer
115 first preferences and 194 offers were recorded for 2026/27.
What does this mean?
This is the Department for Education's own published comparison of first preferences with total offers recorded. It indicates the level of requests made through coordinated admissions. Offers are not necessarily the school's maximum capacity, admissions arrangements vary between local authorities, the figure is not a measure of school quality, and it should not be used on its own to judge the likelihood of gaining a place.
Admissions history
| Admissions year | First preferences | Total preferences | Offers made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 115 | 190 | 194 |
Source: Department for Education · Applications and offers data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 25 February 2025 · Published 22 April 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Fir Vale School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Owler Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4 8GB
- Local authority
- Sheffield
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