Fox Hill Primary

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Sheffield·S6 1AZ
Composite score
8.5
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National rank
#1589
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#117
In Sheffield
Top 100%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
13%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
16 first choices, 17 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
34
any preference, for 17 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8920220.9620230.9620241.0020250.942026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Fox Hill Primary first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
283
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
60.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
9.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
26.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
8.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
36.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,424
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Fox Hill Primary at a glance

Located in Sheffield, Fox Hill Primary is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 283 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 13% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 24.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 99 in reading and 97 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Fox Hill Primary was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 16 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 11.0%. There are about 16.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 61% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Fox Hill Primary does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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