Hilltop School

State-Funded School

hilltop-school-rotherham-yorkshire-and-the-humber

Yorkshire and The HumberRegion

RotherhamLocal Authority

Rother ValleyConstituency

S66 8AZPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Hilltop School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 2–19, located in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 180 pupils. Hilltop School is part of Nexus Multi Academy Trust.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Ethnicity

White

83%

Asian

Black

Mixed

Chinese

Any other group

Unclassified

<1%

Pupils

180

Total Pupils

78%Boys

22%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

46%

England average

27%

First language not English

11%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 2 – 19
Deprivation band: Deprived
Total pupils: 180
IDACI quintile: 4 (Less deprived)
MAT name: Nexus Multi Academy Trust

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 12 March 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
20 Mar 2013	Good	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Good

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.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.