School profile
Newman School
East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX
Overview
Newman School is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in Rotherham, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 2–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 2–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 185
- Pupils on roll
- 185
- URN
- 151166
Admissions
- Local authority
- Rotherham
- Academy trust or group
- VENN ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 12 October 2022 · Published 4 December 2022
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Newman School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
S8 No Formal Designation Visit
Inspected 17 March 2026 · Published 7 June 2026
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
- East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX
- Local authority
- Rotherham
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