Clifford All Saints CofE Primary School

About Clifford All Saints CofE Primary School

Clifford All Saints CofE Primary School is a small Church of England primary in Sheffield, with 158 pupils on roll against a capacity of 210. It sits within a local authority that contains 131 primary schools, 14 of which hold an Outstanding Ofsted rating. The nearest Outstanding school is Hunter’s Bar Junior School, 1.4 kilometres away. Among its local peers, Dobcroft Junior School, Totley Primary School and Angram Bank Primary School all rank higher on the school finder’s composite score. The school is oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake, receiving 18 applications for just 7 places, with all 7 first-preference applicants offered a spot. That gives an oversubscription ratio of 2.57, suggesting strong local demand despite the school’s current Ofsted rating. Headteacher Andy Krabbendam leads a mixed-gender primary for ages 3 to 11, with no nursery or sixth form provision.

The school’s most recent graded Ofsted inspection, in October 2021, rated overall effectiveness as Requires Improvement, a downgrade from the Good rating it received in its previous inspection in October 2019. Every category assessed — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — was judged as Requires Improvement. The report is published on the Ofsted website. On academic outcomes, the local authority average for Key Stage 2 is 57, but Clifford All Saints’ own KS2 SATs results are not available in the data. Without those figures, it is not possible to say how the school compares to the LA benchmark. The school’s 11.4 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals is below the national average, which may reflect the demographic of its catchment.

Facilities include a dining hall, music rooms, an outdoor playground, playing fields, a gymnasium and a chapel. Sports offered are athletics, swimming, cricket, gymnastics and netball, and clubs include coding, chess, film club and book club. The school lists SEND provisions for specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulty or disability. For families considering this school, the oversubscription figures indicate it is a popular choice locally, but the Requires Improvement rating means parents may want to examine the most recent Ofsted report closely and consider whether the school’s small size and Church of England character align with their priorities.

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