St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, Sheffield
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is a primary school for pupils aged 4 to 11 in Sheffield, part of St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust. It has a Roman Catholic religious character. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in October 2019. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in January 2025 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 68th-highest of the 144 schools in Sheffield with published results, and 8,234th of 14,452 across England. It was 70% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- In line with England
- Ofsted
- Good (2019)
- Demand
- Every first choice offered
- Attendance
- In line with England
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 81 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Sheffield (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 26 Oct 2026
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy in detail
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy in its own words
The school runs after-school care.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 86% of Year 6 pupils at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 64% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 73% and 72% in Sheffield and 77% and 75% across England.
Results rose from 64% in reading and 50% in maths in 2024.
With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.
Getting a place at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
For September 2026 entry, 10 families put St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy as their first choice and 20 named it as one of their preferences, for 10 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.
Admissions history and your chances at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy are Stocksbridge Nursery Infant School (0.1 miles); Stocksbridge Junior School (0.2 miles, 86% reading, 90% maths); Royd Nursery and Infant School (0.8 miles, Good); and Deepcar St John's Church of England Junior School (0.9 miles, Good, 77% reading, 79% maths).
Each of them had higher 2025 results than St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy.
Stocksbridge Nursery Infant SchoolStocksbridge Junior SchoolRoyd Nursery and Infant SchoolDeepcar St John's Church of England Junior School
The trust
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is one of 13 schools run by St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.
Across the trust's primary schools, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.
What parents say
24 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy (as of September 2025): 83% would recommend the school, 83% say their child is happy there and 62% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.
The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (88%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (62%).
Who goes there
6.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
The largest ethnic groups are White British (78%), Black (6%) and Mixed (6%).
In 2026, 23 pupils (23.7%) received SEN support and 3 (3.1%) 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 autism.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy.
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Shay House Lane/Kenworthy Road (adjacent), 100 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
In August 2026, police recorded 62 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, vehicle crime and other crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Sheffield (267).
Suspensions and exclusions
In 2024/25, St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy issued 2 suspensions, 2.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE multi-academy trust performance data; Ofsted Parent View; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoThis judgement is from October 2019, 7 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.
Overall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Latest (ungraded) inspection: Standards have been maintained.
Ofsted Insights
From Ofsted's January 2025 inspection report.
What This School Does Well
St Ann's provides a warm, nurturing environment where children feel safe and supported. The school excels at teaching early reading and provides excellent support for pupils with additional needs. Staff truly care about pupils' wellbeing, helping them develop strong social skills and confidence as they prepare for life beyond school.
Key Strengths
- Pupils learn to read quickly with well-matched phonics lessons and strong support for those with SEND
- Strong relationships between staff and pupils create a safe, caring environment with effective behaviour support
- Early years and Year 1 children benefit from well-structured learning with opportunities for independent exploration
- Effective support for pupils with SEND, with lessons and resources adapted so most learn alongside peers
- Staff feel well-supported and valued, with strong trust leadership
Areas for Improvement
- In some recently introduced subjects, teachers do not consistently check what pupils know before moving forward, leading to gaps in knowledge
- Feedback to pupils is inconsistent, with basic mistakes like spelling, capital letters and full stops not always corrected, causing errors to be repeated
- Need to continue embedding curriculum changes so teachers can effectively assess what pupils have learned
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements are effective, with staff and leaders creating an open culture that puts pupils' interests first.
Extracurricular Activities
Musical instrument lessons, competitive sports, whole school seaside visits, residential trips, reading army programme, community fundraising events
St Ann's Catholic Primary School is a nurturing, welcoming school where pupils understand the school's values and feel safe. The school has maintained good standards and taken effective action since its previous inspection in 2019.
At a Glance
19.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
24 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 64% to 86% (2024 to 2025). Maths has improved from 50% to 64% (2024 to 2025). Writing has improved from 50% to 71% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
19.4
Avg class size
5
Total classes
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
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Term dates
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is an academy, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see Sheffield's term dates for its community schools.
Getting There
Bus Stops
Free school transport
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You apply to the council where you live. St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is in Sheffield; for families living there:
- Sheffield's school travel policy: Home to School Travel and Transport Policy September 2023
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 3
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 1 slight.
3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Sheffield is 17 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
70%
Available places
98 pupils
140 places
42 spare places in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Area Demand Pressure - Sheffield
Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Sheffield
Across Sheffield council
Places available
6,785
Applications
5,415
Got 1st preference
95.1%
Got preferred school
98.9%
All primary applications across Sheffield council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: Every first choice offered
Inspection History(3)
Ungraded inspection: Standards have been maintained.
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
23
SEN Support
3
EHC Plans
26.8%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
97
Total Pupils
43
Boys
54
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
6
Teachers
16.2:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£50,337
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£6,160
Per pupil
£656k
Total funding
£21k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
5.8%
Overall absence
11.2%
Persistent absence
89
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Questions parents ask about St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
What are SATs results like at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
Of the pupils at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 86% reached the expected standard in reading and 64% did so in maths.
What is St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy's Ofsted rating?
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy's most recent Ofsted inspection, in January 2025, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in October 2019, it was rated Good.
What is the catchment area for St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
No fixed boundary. When St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is oversubscribed, Sheffield allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.
Is it hard to get a place at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy was not full in 2025: it ran at 70% of its 140 places.
How big are the classes at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
Classes at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy average 19.4 pupils (2025/26).
How many pupils go to St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy has around 97 pupils on roll. 20% are eligible for free school meals.
What is attendance like at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
5.8% of sessions were missed at St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy in 2024/25. 11.2% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
How do I apply to St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
Apply through Sheffield's coordinated admissions process, naming St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy on your application. Applications for Reception places starting in September 2027 close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are made on Friday 16 April 2027.
How many road collisions happen near St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 1 slight. 3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Sheffield is 17 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy?
St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is at McIntyre Road, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S36 1DG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)