Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School

Academy converter·Primary school Sheffield·S2 1UF
Composite score
32.5
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#12,879
National rank
#1371
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#93
In Sheffield
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
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
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
49 first choices, 59 places
First choices per place
0.83
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
100
any preference, for 59 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120221.3220230.8920240.9420250.832026

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

Every child who put Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School 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
391
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
44.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
37.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,944
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Sheffield, Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 391 pupils aged 3 to 11. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 13.0 percentage points year on 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 102 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 59 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 23.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% 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. Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School 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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