High Storrs School, Sheffield

Ofsted's report card from its 9 September 2026 inspection grades High Storrs School on 7 areas: 7 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve very well at High Storrs School."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders have an informed and accurate understanding of behaviour, attendance and pupils' attitudes to learning across school."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have a deep understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders have highly effective systems to identify pupils' needs quickly."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders provide a clear strategic direction for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Pupils benefit from a personal development programme that helps them grow as confident, resilient and thoughtful young people."

Post-16 provision - Strong standard. "Leaders ensure a broad and ambitious study programme is in place for post-16 students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged students."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should develop the approach to checking grammatical accuracy so it is consistently embedded across all subjects"; "Leaders should ensure they continue to refine pupil plans to ensure adaptations and interventions have a transformational impact on the achievement of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities".

In 2026, pupils at High Storrs School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 59.7, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.6 in Sheffield and 47 across England.

74% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 47% in Sheffield and 47% in England.

That is down from 61 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.87: pupils made well above 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 41.1, against 62.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 21.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 30 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Geography, Combined Science and Chemistry.

For September 2026 entry, 302 families put High Storrs School as their first choice and 795 named it as one of their preferences, for 244 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 60 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to High Storrs School are Silverdale School (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 61.3); Notre Dame High School (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 58.8); Mercia School (1.2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 66.6); and Tapton School & Sixth Form (1.2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 59.1).

High Storrs School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

High Storrs School is one of 10 schools run by Minerva Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45 in 2024/25.

Of the 239 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 18% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 0% into work.

Of the 231 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 58% went on to university or other higher education, 2% to apprenticeships and 23% into work. 41% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

8.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 4.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (80%) and Mixed (7%).

High Storrs School has a resourced provision.

The nearest railway station is Dore & Totley Rail Station, about 2.1 miles away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is High Storrs Road/Huntley Road (adjacent), 90 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood High Storrs School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 104 crimes within a mile of the school, most often shoplifting, violence and sexual offences and other theft. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Sheffield (267).

In 2024/25, High Storrs School issued 44 suspensions, 2.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to High Storrs School are Ecclesall Primary School (0.2 miles), Clifford All Saints CofE Primary School (0.3 miles), Greystones Primary School (0.6 miles) and Nether Green Junior School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.