Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School
General Information
- Address: Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield, S2 5ED – View on map
- Phone: 01142721988
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Hannah Thornley
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 51 families put it first for 51 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 13 · 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: 330
- % eligible for free school meals: 70.8%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Sheffield average)
- English as an additional language: 32% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.4% a year (Sheffield 12.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 48% moved to another school, 52% 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: 7.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 25.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for AutismSpeech, language and communication 12 places · 12 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 25.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 98 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 17 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 13 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 38% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 21 percentage points below the Sheffield average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 42% against an expected 50%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 42%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 58% · Writing 50% · Maths 68% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 101
- 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 98th of 110 junior and primary schools in the area
- =98Greenhill Primary School38%
- =98Hinde House 2-16 Academy38%
- =98Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School38%
- #101Oasis Academy Fir Vale37%
- =102Norfolk Community Primary School36%
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76th of 80 primary schools in Sheffield for Ofsted rating
- #74Woodseats Primary SchoolGood
- #75Woodthorpe Primary SchoolGood
- #76Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery SchoolGood
- #77Birley Spa Primary AcademyRequires improvement
- #78Clifford All Saints CofE Primary SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,822 (2024-25)
16th of 96 primary schools in Sheffield for spending per pupil
- #14Reignhead Primary School£7,836
- #15Springfield Primary School£7,831
- #16Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School£7,822
- #17Wisewood Nursery & Primary School£7,803
- #18Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School£7,794
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