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Meadowhead School

Comprehensive

National rank

356

n/a

Rank last year

58^%

A-level

19.4^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Kam Grewal-Joy

Attendance 91.2%

Gender of entry Mixed

Send pupils* 11.3% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,920

Pupils on free school meals 36.5%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

A*/A

A*-B

Grade

9/8

10.4

9/8/7

19.4

What the school inspection says

“Meadowhead School Academy is an inclusive and welcoming school, with a popular sixth form. Pupils are happy and safe. They care about each other and treat each other with respect. Leaders prioritise pupils’ personal development, and this supports the work of the school to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain. Pupils find this highly motivating. The curriculum is ambitious… [and] the personal development curriculum actively supports pupils’ welfare and wellbeing. They enjoy opportunities to develop their leadership through volunteering for the student parliament. Sixth form students are positive role models for younger pupils. Students who attend the sixth form are taking up places at university in increasing numbers. Leaders and governors have brought about considerable improvement since the previous inspection.”

Inspection

2022

In detail *

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*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

Meadowhead School was formed following the mergers of two schools in 1987 and is now an academy, educating almost 2,000 girls and boys aged 11 to 18. It is the largest school in Sheffield. In 2022, Ofsted judged it to be a “good” school.
The size of the school, says the headteacher Kam Grewal-Joy, is to its benefit, meaning that pupils from beyond Meadowhead’s seven feeder primary schools have the opportunity to apply to join.
The school houses are named after key figures who have a connection to Sheffield: the astronaut Helen Sharman, the Holocaust educator Sue Pearson, the inventor Harry Brearley and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
In 2018, a £2.4-million sixth-form extension opened. A range of A-levels, including philosophy and product design, are offered as options in addition to a number of BTecs.

enquiries@meadowhead.sheffield.sch.uk

Telephone

0114 2372723

Website

meadowhead.sheffield.sch.uk

Address

Dyche Lane, Sheffield, S8 8BR

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