Handsworth Grange Community Sports College

Academy converter·Secondary school Sheffield·S13 9HJ
Composite score
45.8
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#2,885
National rank
#274
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#23
In Sheffield
Top 91%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
36.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
27%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
46%
% EBacc grade 5+
7%
EBacc average points score
3.11

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
87%
231 first choices, 204 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
427
any preference, for 204 places
Last place offered lived
1.75 mi
straight line, 2025 intake · 2813 m
Applications from another council area
11%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
1.3420221.2720231.1120241.0020251.132026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
992
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
12.0%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
30.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,098
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
87%
199 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
81%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Handsworth Grange Community Sports College at a glance

Located in Sheffield, Handsworth Grange Community Sports College is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 992 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 36.6 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 3.1 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

27% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 46% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 231 first choices for 204 places. In 2025 the furthest child offered a place lived 1.75 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. After Year 11, 87% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.8%. There are about 15.2 pupils per teacher. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College 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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