Firth Park Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the Shiregreen area of Sheffield, England.

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Firth Park Academy
Address
Fircroft Avenue Sheffield , South Yorkshire , S5 0SD England
Coordinates	53.42579°N 1.44548°W / 53.42579; -1.44548
Information
Type	Academy
Department for Education URN	139334 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	1,019
Colour(s)	Blue (light and dark), white
Publication	In Touch
Website	http://www.firthparkacademy.org/

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It is partnered with Longley Park Sixth Form, HBH Academy Trust, Beck Primary School, Hucklow Primary School and others.

The school began as Firth Park Secondary School in 1920, becoming Firth Park Grammar School in 1937. This became the comprehensive Firth Park School in 1969. Old pupils of the school are known as Old Firparnians. In 2004, the Longley Park Sixth Form College was opened on the site of Firth Park Grammar School. The school gained specialist status as an Arts College and was renamed Firth Park Community Arts College. The school converted to academy status on 1 August 2013 and was renamed Firth Park Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust.

Currently, the school achieves average GCSEs grades; a large number of students entering the school have average attainment level of around 85%. The number of students achieving five or more A*-C GCSEs has been increasing for the past several years. The sixth form college for Firth Park Academy is Longley Park Sixth Form.

From 2016 to 2021, Firth Park Academy appeared in the CBBC show, Our School. This showed the journey of new Year 7's joining Firth Park Academy.

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (September 2017)

• Stuart Ford, goalkeeper
• Richard Hawley, musician with the Longpigs
• Mark Rhodes, footballer with Rotherham United