All Saints' Catholic High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,404 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.9
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The Birley Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,061of 1,163 places
- Free school meals
- 35.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 219
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 13 May 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Birley Community College (URN 107146, until 1 February 2017).
What the data says
The Birley Academy has no sixth form. Of the 205 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 69% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 47% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 37.2 against 46.1 across England and 43.2 in Sheffield, with 27% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
As an 11–16 school, The Birley Academy is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Sheffield and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | The Birley Academy | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 205 | 5,938 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 86% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 81% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 12% | 36% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 8% | 13% |
| — further education college | 69% | 38% | 37% |
| — other education | — | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 6% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | The Birley Academy | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 37.2 | 43.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 27% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 52% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 29% | 38% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.22 | 3.84 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 35% | 36% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 29.1 | 30.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 41.5 | 50.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 14% | 22% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 214 | 98% | 88% | 14% | 22% | 68% |
| English Language | 212 | 97% | 89% | 4% | 20% | 51% |
| English Literature | 210 | 96% | 86% | 5% | 21% | 55% |
| Combined Science | 192 | 88% | 65% | 4% | 9% | 38% |
| History | 128 | 58% | 41% | 8% | 26% | 47% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 104 | 47% | 8% | 11% | 21% | 58% |
| Geography | 98 | 45% | 41% | 9% | 25% | 53% |
| Fine Art | 63 | 29% | 9% | 10% | 28% | 62% |
| French | 62 | 28% | 18% | 10% | 29% | 45% |
| Design and Technology | 50 | 23% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 22% |
| Religious Studies | 43 | 20% | 31% | 9% | 32% | 56% |
| Physics | 21 | 10% | 23% | 19% | 46% | 71% |
| Biology | 21 | 10% | 23% | 24% | 45% | 81% |
| Chemistry | 21 | 10% | 23% | 24% | 47% | 71% |
| Arabic | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| German | 1 | 0% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Statistics | 1 | 0% | 5% | — | 20% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 56 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 45 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 40 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 37 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 33 | — | — |
| Tourism | 19 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 1 | — | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.