Secondary
Penistone Grammar School
Huddersfield Road, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 7BX
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1946 of 1877 places
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Ofsted
Last inspected February 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
60%
53.6
6th of 30 by our score, among the secondary schools in Sheffield we can score - 36 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 53.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.81 |
| Entered the EBacc | 50% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 76% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 60% |
| A level average points per entry | 40.67 |
| A level students | 127 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 76% |
| 22/23 | 66% |
| 23/24 | 67% |
| 24/25 | 60% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 44.6 |
| 22/23 | 38.8 |
| 23/24 | 39.2 |
| 24/25 | 40.7 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.49 |
| 22/23 | +0.46 |
| 23/24 | +0.33 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 60.1 |
| 22/23 | 55.8 |
| 23/24 | 55.4 |
| 24/25 | 53.6 |
Huddersfield Road, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 7BX
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Barnsley admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Paul Crook
- Address
- Huddersfield Road, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 7BX
- Telephone
- 01226762114