Secondary
Forge Valley School & Sixth Form
Wood Lane, Sheffield, S6 5HG
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1494 of 1350 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- INOVA MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST LIMITED
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 68.1
- All staff (FTE)
- 84.8
- Pupils per adult
- 17.8
- Pupils
- 1,510
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected May 2024
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
April 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
GCSE results
55%
11 points above the Sheffield average (44% across 30 schools)
46.6
1.0 above the Sheffield average (45.6 across 30 schools)
10th of 30 by our score, among the secondary schools in Sheffield we can score - 36 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 46.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.19 |
| Entered the EBacc | 43% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 55% |
| A level average points per entry | 32.95 |
| A level students | 107 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 56% |
| 22/23 | 54% |
| 23/24 | 47% |
| 24/25 | 55% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 34.0 |
| 22/23 | 33.5 |
| 23/24 | 36.5 |
| 24/25 | 33.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.05 |
| 22/23 | -0.12 |
| 23/24 | -0.18 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50.1 |
| 22/23 | 48.2 |
| 23/24 | 47.4 |
| 24/25 | 46.6 |
Wood Lane, Sheffield, S6 5HG
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Sheffield admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Dale Barrowclough
- Address
- Wood Lane, Sheffield, S6 5HG
- Telephone
- 01142348805