Monteney Primary School
General Information
- Address: Monteney Crescent, Sheffield, S5 9DN – View on map
- Phone: 01142467916
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Nicola Osborne
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 47 families put it first for 47 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 47 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 151
- % eligible for free school meals: 36.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Sheffield average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.3% a year (Sheffield 12.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 45% moved to another school, 55% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Sheffield: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 10 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 10 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Sheffield, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 7.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 20.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 39 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 32 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 26 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 45% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points below the Sheffield average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 47% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 47%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 63% · Writing 53% · Maths 63% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 58%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 102
- Based on: 60 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 85th of 110 junior and primary schools in the area
- =85Acres Hill Community Primary School45%
- =85Lower Meadow Primary School45%
- =85Monteney Primary School45%
- =85Rainbow Forge Primary Academy45%
- =89Hartley Brook Primary School44%
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38th of 80 primary schools in Sheffield for Ofsted rating
- #36Meersbrook Bank Primary SchoolGood
- #37Meynell Nursery & Primary SchoolGood
- #38Monteney Primary SchoolGood
- #39Mundella Primary SchoolGood
- #40Netherthorpe Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,811 (2024-25)
90th of 96 primary schools in Sheffield for spending per pupil
- #88Totley All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£5,844
- #89Norton Free Church of England Primary School£5,841
- #90Monteney Primary School£5,811
- #91Loxley Primary School£5,718
- #92Oasis Academy Watermead£5,621
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