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Ofsted wants more ambition from 'coasting schools' | |
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There are too many lacklustre schools in England which are not pushing children to reach their potential, says the annual report from Ofsted. | There are too many lacklustre schools in England which are not pushing children to reach their potential, says the annual report from Ofsted. |
The education watchdog's report says too many schools are failing to rise above the "satisfactory" grade. | |
There are also concerns about teaching quality, which was no better than satisfactory in 41% of schools. | There are also concerns about teaching quality, which was no better than satisfactory in 41% of schools. |
Ofsted's chief inspector Miriam Rosen said it was of "great concern" that so many schools remained at this grade. | |
"Ensuring that there is real improvement must be a matter of urgency for these organisations," she said. | |
Deprived areas | |
The report also warned that schools serving the most deprived pupils were disproportionately likely to be underperforming. | |
The fifth of schools in the poorest areas were four times as likely to have been assessed as "inadequate" by inspectors, compared with schools in wealthier areas. | |
However the report also highlighted that 85 schools in the most deprived areas had received an "outstanding" grade. | |
The education watchdog's report is the latest warning about the number of "coasting" schools, often in prosperous areas, where schools might achieve respectable results, but fail to stretch pupils. | |
The report says that 800 schools - 14% - have been judged as "satisfactory" in two successive inspections. | |
It suggests that when schools are judged as inadequate, it can often trigger rapid improvement, while satisfactory schools might stay at this level, lacking the ambition to rise higher. | |
This "satisfactory" grade is above the point at which intervention is required, but below the higher grades of "good" and "outstanding". | |
Ofsted says that 20% of schools are outstanding, 50% are good, 28% are satisfactory and 2% are inadequate. | |
'Not good quality' | |
The report raised concerns about the variability of teaching standards. | |
"Good teaching is absolutely essential to the provision of a good education and quite simply too much of what our inspectors saw this year was not good quality," said Ms Rosen. | |
Teaching was not rated as outstanding in any college inspected this year - and in more than two in five schools it was no better than satisfactory. | |
Under changes in the inspection process which are to be introduced, outstanding schools will no longer receive routine inspections - and more attention will be focused on schools rated as satisfactory and inadequate. |