Fir Vale Academy

About Fir Vale Academy

Fir Vale Academy is a mixed state secondary school in Sheffield for pupils aged 11 to 16, serving a community where academic outcomes have been a significant challenge. Within the local authority, it ranks 26th out of 29 secondary schools on Progress 8, placing it in the bottom half of Sheffield’s state schools. The top-performing peers in the area are High Storrs School, King Ecgbert School, and Tapton School, all of which achieve positive Progress 8 scores. Fir Vale’s Progress 8 score of -1.09 is well below the national average and significantly lower than the Sheffield local authority average of -0.4. This means that, on average, pupils at Fir Vale achieve nearly a full grade less per subject than pupils with similar starting points nationally. The school’s attainment 8 score sits at 25.5, and only 11% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in English and maths (the basics 95 measure), compared with 26.9% at the grade 4 threshold.

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