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Fir Vale Academy

Secondary · Sheffield · S4 8GB

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At a glance

931 pupils · 89% of 1,050 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
11–16
Free school meals
72.4% of pupils
Website
http://firvale.com/
URN
151851

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.59 first-choice applications per place

194 places offered · 115 first-choice applications · usually has places

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

Attainment 8 score

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Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs

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Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

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EBacc average point score

no data

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
19.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
51.1%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
16.3
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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