Is your kid’s secondary college failing?

Ofsted officers have branded 84 secondary faculties as failing throughout inspections in the course of the first six weeks of 2024. 

Figures seen by MailOnline  confirmed that of the 322 Ofsted reviews printed to this point this 12 months, some 84 have been graded as both Inadequate or Require Improvement. 

Ofsted grades faculties on a four-point scale from Outstanding, via Good, Requires Improvement and worst of all, Inadquate. 

So far 55 faculties have been graded as Outstanding, together with Ark King Solomon Academy in north west London; Avonbourne Boys’ Academy in Bournemouth and Aylesbury High School in Nottingham. 

An extra 139 have been classed as ‘Good’.

Disappointingly, 55 faculties have been graded as requiring enchancment, together with Park Academy West in Hillingdon; Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne, Dorset and Newhouse Academy in Heywood, Lancashire. 

Of most concern are the 30 outcomes which discovered faculties to be Inadequate. 

Figures seen by MailOnline confirmed that of the 322 Ofsted reviews printed to this point this 12 months, some 84 have been graded as both Inadequate or Require Improvement (file picture)

Progress Schools of Hamilton Square on the Wirral fell from Good in a report from June 2021 to Inadequate on a report printed on St Valentine’s Day. 

The unbiased college has annual charges for day pupils of between £13,500 and £38,000 and has 60 pupils aged between 11 and 16. 

According to the report: ‘All the locations on the college are commissioned by the native authority for pupils who’ve been excluded. Most pupils have social, emotional and psychological well being wants.’ 

The inspectors discovered lots of the pupils have developed ‘adverse views of training’ and the college has ‘low expectations of what some pupils, together with these with particular instructional wants and / or disabilities (SEND), can and will obtain.’ 

The report discovered the pupils’ behaviour in classes and across the college is ‘poor’ and the standard of training has ‘declined because the earlier inspection’. 

Newbury Independent School in Aston, Birmingham is one other college which educates SEND pupils and those that have had issues learning. 

It costs native authorities between £54,752 and £97,500 to teach as much as 60 pupils. 

So far 55 faculties have been graded as Outstanding, together with Ark King Solomon Academy in north west London ; Avonbourne Boys’ Academy in Bournemouth and Aylesbury High School in Nottingham (file picture)

According to the Ofsted report: ‘Pupils who attend Newbury Independent School usually are not being educated properly sufficient. The college doesn’t pay sufficient consideration to pupils’ well-being and it fails to take full account of the issues that put pupils susceptible to hurt. Leaders don’t establish and act on considerations shortly sufficient. This signifies that pupils don’t all the time obtain the assistance they could want.’ 

Ofsted’s single phrase grades have been criticised by MPs following the tragic loss of life of head trainer Ruth Perry who took her personal life when an inspection downgraded her college, Caversham Primary School in Reading from Outstanding to Inadequate. 

A coroner concluded that an Ofsted inspection in November 2022 contributed to her loss of life. 

The faculties watchdog has additionally been urged to keep away from inspecting services blighted by the bolstered autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) scandal. 

A complete of 231 faculties and schools in England have been confirmed as having Raac on their premises as of November 27 final 12 months, based on the listing printed by the Department for Education (DfE).

Ofsted stated it could keep away from inspecting any college or school that was on the DfE’s listing of training settings affected by Raac in the course of the autumn time period.

This time period, a faculty or school that has confirmed Raac on website will probably be eligible for an inspection, however Ofsted stated an affected setting can ask for an inspection to be deferred.

Education specialists at Durham University lately referred to as for pupils at faculties the place instructing has been badly affected by Raac to have their GCSE and A-level outcomes uplifted by as much as 10 per cent.

An announcement by Ofsted stated: ‘This spring time period, a faculty that has confirmed Raac in a few of their buildings will probably be eligible for Ofsted inspection; nevertheless, this will probably be adequate grounds to defer the inspection, ought to the college want to.

Head trainer Ruth Perry, pictured, took her personal life shortly after an Ofsted report downgraded her college from Outstanding to Inadequate. An inquest into her tragic loss of life discovered the report could have contributed to her suicide

Ofsted has introduced it might defer inspections on faculties affected by the Raac concrete scandal

‘We know that the scenario with Raac remains to be inflicting challenges for varsity employees, pupils and their dad and mom and guardians.

‘For faculties that should not have confirmed Raac however should still be impacted by Raac – for instance, the place a faculty is internet hosting pupils from faculties which have Raac – we’ll rigorously think about any requests for a deferral of an inspection.

‘If we’ve any considerations, we retain the precise to examine any setting, together with these affected by Raac.

A Department for Education spokesperson stated: ‘The security of employees and pupils is paramount, and we’ve been working at tempo with faculties to establish Raac and assist them to minimise disruption.

‘We have dedicated to fund the removing of Raac from our faculties both via grants, or via our School Rebuilding Programme and we’ll inform faculties as quickly as doable as soon as our assessments have concluded.’