St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Sheffield·S12 4HJ
Composite score
63.2
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#3,108
National rank
#295
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#18
In Sheffield
Top 21%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
81%
% achieving higher RWM
9%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
33 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
47
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1420220.9120230.9620241.0020251.102026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy yet. Sheffield does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
213
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,291
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy at a glance

Located in Sheffield, St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 213 pupils aged 4 to 11. 81% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 3.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 21% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 9% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 33 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 25.4 pupils per teacher. St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy 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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