Each year, the Department for Education evaluates schools by their A Level results as well as how many of their students progress past school to higher education, technical colleges and even how many make it into a Russell Group or Oxbridge uni.
Now, new data by the Department of Education has marked the scores for the Steel City’s colleges and sixth forms based on the average A Level results.
The Government standardises how A Level results progress using a huge range of different scores – but, because these are quite difficult to interpret, this is also represented in the form of a grade from A+ to G.
To accompany the data, The Star has also found how many of each college’s students progressed into university, Russell Group universities and Oxbridge.
Two of Sheffield’s independent colleges, Birkdale School and Sheffield High School, are missing from the data.
13. The Sheffield College - D
The Sheffield College, City Campus, was upgraded to Good from Requires Improvement in its latest Ofsted report published in February 2023. It has the largest student cohort in Sheffield, with more than 10,000 people on its roll at the time of the inspection, many of whom go to the college without the intention of progressing to higher education, as the college teaches trade skills and apprenticeships. In the data, the average point score per A Level entry equated to a D. 42 per cent of its 993 eligible pupil cohort progressing to university. However, eight per cent - the highest on this list - progressed to higher technical colleges. | Ryan Blackwood Photo: Ryan Blackwood - Butterfly Wedding Films
14. UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park - D
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, in Old Hall Road, was rated Good in all areas during its last inspection in January 2019. In the data, their average point score per A Level equated to a D, with 65 per cent of their 51 pupil cohort progressing to higher education, including 10 per cent in Russell Group universities and three per cent into Oxbridge. | Chris Etchells Photo: Chris Etchells
15. UTC Sheffield City Centre - D
UTC Sheffield City Centre, in Matilda Street, maintained its Good rating when it was visited in January 2020, where inspectors noted pupils choose the school because they want to be engineers or digital designers, which "the school understands its specialist character very well." In the data, the average A Level point score equated to a C-, with 51 per cent of its 77 students progressing to higher education. One point of interest is how, in the 2021-22 academic year, 11 per cent of its cohorts secured an apprenticeship. The 2022-23 saw this fall to just 4 per cent. | Google Maps Photo: Google