Oughtibridge Primary School

About Oughtibridge Primary School

Oughtibridge Primary School holds an Ofsted Outstanding rating from its most recent inspection in 2023, with every single category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — all judged Outstanding. That puts it among just 14 primary schools in Sheffield to hold the top grade. But the real story is in the exam results. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 tests, 77% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That is a full 20 percentage points above the Sheffield local authority average of 57%, and it places Oughtibridge 10th out of 106 primary schools in the area — comfortably in the top 10% locally. Nationally, the school sits in the top 16% of all primaries, a strong showing for a state school of its size.

Digging deeper into the KS2 data, the school’s strengths are spread across the three core subjects. In writing, 94% of pupils hit the expected standard, and 13% reached the higher standard. Reading saw 84% at expected and 18% at higher, while maths recorded 87% at expected and 29% at higher — the latter being a particularly strong figure. Average scaled scores were 106 in both reading and maths, comfortably above the national benchmark of 100. The school does not publish progress scores, so it is hard to say how much value it adds relative to starting points, but the raw outcomes are clearly well above the Sheffield average. The school’s ranking score of 77 places it just behind top local peers like Dobcroft Junior School (84) and Totley Primary School (82), but it is still firmly in the top 25% of schools nationally.

Oughtibridge is a larger-than-average primary with 413 pupils on roll, very close to its capacity of 420. It is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 97 applications for 57 places, with all 57 first-preference applicants offered a spot — an oversubscription ratio of 1.7. The school has a relatively low proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 10.4%, suggesting a broadly affluent catchment. Facilities include a library, ICT suite, sensory room, art studios and a chapel. Sports on offer are football, cricket, netball and swimming, and clubs include gardening, chess and film club. The school has a wide range of SEND provisions, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional needs, speech and language issues, hearing impairment, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. This is a school that suits families who prioritise strong academic outcomes in a well-resourced, inclusive setting, and who are willing to compete for a place in a popular Sheffield primary.

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