Kenwood Academy
Kenwood Academy is a special academy in Sheffield for boys and girls aged 11 to 19. It has 282 pupils, 98 more than it has places for. About 45 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. Ofsted visited in February 2026 and gave it a report card, which is below.
9 Moncrieffe Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield, S7 1HQ0114 258 2140kenwoodacademy.co.ukMr Richard Hadfield headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted visited on 10 February 2026. Instead of one overall word, it now gives a grade for each part of school life. Read the full report on Ofsted's website.
Ofsted says these new grades can't be lined up against the old one-word grades.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome | Inspected as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2022 | S5 Inspection | Good | Kingfisher Academy (predecessor) |
† These inspections are for Kingfisher Academy, the school this one replaced in January 2023. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Results
GCSE results, summer 2025
29 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
All GCSE measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | Sheffield | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of Year 11 | 29 | 17 | – | – |
| Average GCSE scoreAttainment 8 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 45.2 | 46.8 |
| Progress from age 11Progress 8 | – | -3.74 | – | – |
| Strong pass in English and mathsGrade 5+ in English and maths | 0% | 0% | 44% | 46% |
| Standard pass in English and mathsGrade 4+ in English and maths | 0% | 0% | 64% | 66% |
| Core subjects scoreEBacc average point score | 0.01 | 0.10 | 4.01 | 4.15 |
| Taking the core subjectsEBacc entry | 0% | 0% | 40% | 41% |
| Average GCSE score: low-income pupilsAttainment 8, disadvantaged | 0.2 | 3.3 | – | – |
| Average GCSE score: other pupilsAttainment 8, non-disadvantaged | 0.8 | 0.8 | – | – |
| Average GCSE score: pupils who started behindAttainment 8, low prior attainers | – | 0.0 | – | – |
Does every child do well here?
A good school does well by every child, not just on average. Each row compares two groups of pupils here. The grey marks show the same two groups across England. Every gap at this school is smaller than the gap across England. When a group has fewer than about ten pupils, its figures jump around a lot from year to year.
At GCSE, 2025
Low-income means the child has had free school meals at some point in the last six years. A group's figure isn't published when it has fewer than six pupils.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Sheffield council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
What parents say
From Ofsted's Parent View survey: 93 parents answered in the year to 6 April 2026. Parents choose whether to fill it in, and many only do so when an inspection is coming, so don't read too much into small differences. The England figures are the average for all schools with enough answers to publish.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: Autistic spectrum disorder (172), emotional and mental health (83), language and communications needs (17), Specific learning difficulty (4), Moderate learning difficulty (2), Severe learning difficulty (2).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 282 | 252 | 176 | 128 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 41% | 36% | 41% | 41% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 2% | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 100% | 100% | 94% |
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 69.1% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22† | 2020/21† | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 30.9% | 23.1% | 25.2% | 32.8% | 27.8% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 23.2% | 18.3% | 20.5% | 27.1% | 21.7% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 7.7% | 4.8% | 4.7% | 5.7% | 6.1% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 62.6% | 61.8% | 60.4% | 85.4% | 31.5% | 12.8% |
| SuspensionsSuspension rate | 12.7 | 14.2 | 3.9 | – | – | – |
| Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
† These attendance figures are for Kingfisher Academy, the school this one replaced in January 2023. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other special schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brantwood Garden School | Independent | 410 m | 55 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Hunter's Bar Infant School | Academy | 420 m | – | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Hunter's Bar Junior School | Academy | 420 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Porter Croft Church of England Primary Academy | Academy | 830 m | 214 | No overall grade 2025 | 78 | Compare |
| Westbourne School | Independent | 1000 m | 276 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Greystones Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | – | Good 2022 | – | Compare |
| Sheffield High School GDST | Independent | 0.7 miles | 695 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Nether Edge Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 478 | No overall grade 2025 | 91 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Kenwood Academy a good school?
Kenwood Academy doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted's report card from February 2026 rated its teaching as as expected.
What is Kenwood Academy's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted no longer gives schools one overall grade. When it visited on 10 February 2026 it rated teaching as as expected, achievement as strong, behaviour and attendance as strong, leadership as as expected.
How good are Kenwood Academy's GCSE results?
In summer 2025, 0% of pupils got a grade 5 or better in both English and maths. Across England it was 46%. Its Attainment 8 score, which is the average grade across a pupil's best eight subjects times ten, was 0.4, against 46.8 for England. In each subject, pupils here finished well over a grade behind children across England who started secondary school at the same level.
How many pupils does Kenwood Academy have?
282 pupils aged 11 to 19 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 184 places, so it is 153% full.
What is attendance like at Kenwood Academy?
Pupils were in school 69.1% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 63% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
What do parents say about Kenwood Academy?
62% of the 93 parents who answered Ofsted's Parent View survey would recommend it to other parents, and 56% say their child is happy there. Across England, 84% of parents would recommend their child's school.
Does Kenwood Academy have a sixth form?
Yes.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- 9 Moncrieffe Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield, S7 1HQ
- Telephone
- 0114 258 2140
- Website
- www.kenwoodacademy.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Richard Hadfield
- Type of school
- Special academy (Academy special converter, academies)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 11-19, with sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Multi-academy trust
- Nexus Multi Academy Trust (23 schools)
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Ward
- Nether Edge and Sharrow
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 January 2023 (split school)
- URN
- 149427 · LAESTAB 3735950 · UKPRN 10092001
- Formerly
- Kingfisher Academy
Recent changes
- New KS4 results for 2024/25
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2024/25 final.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.