Academy special sponsor led

Willow Park School

Mixed · ages 7–16Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber · Sheffield S2 2RUTrust: Nexus Multi Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
89of 100 places
Free school meals
86.5%
Year 11 cohort 2025
11
Ofsted
Requires improvement, 10 January 2023Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Heritage Park School (URN 126705, until 1 January 2025).

What the data says

Of the 14 pupils who finished Year 11 at Willow Park School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 43% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 0.8 against 46.1 across England and 43.2 in Sheffield, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

21% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

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.

Willow Park School
Sheffield
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureWillow Park SchoolSheffieldEngland
Pupils in the cohort145,938607,348
Any sustained destination43%89%92%
Stayed in education43%84%86%
— school sixth form0%36%34%
— sixth form college0%8%13%
— further education college43%38%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%3%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination21%7%6%
Destination unknown36%4%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureWillow Park SchoolSheffieldEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.843.246.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%42%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%38%41%
EBacc average point score0.033.844.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort91%36%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils30.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language327%89%20%
Mathematics218%88%22%
Biology19%23%45%

Other secondary schools in Sheffield

Ecclesfield School

Academy sponsor led · 1,711 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.5

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.