All Saints' Catholic High School, Sheffield

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades All Saints' Catholic High School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils typically achieve well and develop appropriate knowledge and skills across the curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Many pupils' positive attendance reflects their sense of belonging."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders' improved quality assurance processes and use of external expertise mean that they understand the quality of curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have restructured the school's inclusion team and its approach to meeting the needs of pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), those who are disadvantaged and those known to social care."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders model the professionalism and compassion they expect of others."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The rich All Saints programme of personal development is reflective of the school's diverse pupil population."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "The diverse population of students in the post-16 provision is happy and settled and typically achieves well in the inclusive environment."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "The trust should develop systems to review and understand the impact of its work, particularly in relation to that which has strengthened the school's safeguarding practice, and so be well placed to provide ongoing scrutiny"; "Leaders should continue their work to refine the curriculum and ensure that all teachers deliver it in line with leaders' expectations so that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, achieve well in each key stage and in each subject"; "Leaders should take steps to ensure that pupils remember what they study in the personal, social, health and economic education curriculum and the relationships and sex education curriculum, and that this knowledge supports all pupils to enact the school's values, such as respect".

In its own words: "At All Saints, we not only recognise the importance of providing an academically enriching curriculum, but we also embrace our wider role in preparing our students for life in modern Britain."

From the headteacher's welcome: "It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the All Saints school community. As a Christi an community we adhere to Gospel Values as the f ou ndation for all that we do."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include dance, drama and Duke of Edinburgh.

In 2026, pupils at All Saints' Catholic High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 51.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.6 in Sheffield and 47 across England.

53% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 47% in Sheffield and 47% in England.

That is up from 49.9 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.05: pupils made about average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 44.3, against 53.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 28 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and History.

For September 2026 entry, 211 families put All Saints' Catholic High School as their first choice and 426 named it as one of their preferences, for 205 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 37 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to All Saints' Catholic High School are UTC Sheffield City Centre (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 39.2); Astrea Academy Sheffield (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46.9); Sheffield Springs Academy (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.4); and King Edward VII School (1.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.9).

All Saints' Catholic High School's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

All Saints' Catholic High School is one of 13 schools run by St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 205 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 91% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 33% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 169 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 70% went on to university or other higher education, 6% to apprenticeships and 13% into work. 11% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

36.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (35%), Black (32%) and Mixed (11%).

In 2026, 112 pupils (8%) received SEN support and 33 (2.4%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

All Saints' Catholic High School has a resourced provision for physical disability.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Granville Rd-Sheff Coll to Halfway, about 270 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Granville Road/Farm Bank Road (opposite), 80 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 1110 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Sheffield (267), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, All Saints' Catholic High School issued 127 suspensions, 9.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to All Saints' Catholic High School are Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School (0.6 miles), Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School (0.7 miles), Norfolk Community Primary School (0.7 miles) and Emmaus Catholic and CofE Primary School (0.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.