Fir Vale Academy
State-Funded School
Not published
No overall grade
About the School
Fir Vale Academy is a state-funded secondary for pupils aged 11–16, located in Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber.
It currently serves 931 pupils.
Ofsted Rating
Yes
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Requires improvement
Quality ofeducation
Requires improvement
Personaldevelopment
Good
Behaviour &attitudes
Requires improvement
Academic Performance
No DfE attainment data is published for this school — usually because the cohort is too small to report without identifying pupils.
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
51%Boys
49%GirlsPupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 – 16
- Total pupils
- 931
Inspection history
Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.
| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2025 | Requires improvement | Requires improvement | Good | Requires improvement | Not judged |
A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.
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