Education written question – answered at on 25 June 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many schools failed their Ofsted inspection (a) nationally and (b) in North Swindon constituency in the last year for which figures are available.
This question is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has written to my hon. Friend, and a copy of his response has been placed in the House Libraries.
Letter from Sir Michael Wilshaw, dated
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for response.
Since 2005, maintained school inspections have been carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005 and, more recently, the Education Act 2011. Ofsted records all judgements made by inspectors in section 5 inspections, including the judgement for the overall effectiveness of the school.
Under section 5, Ofsted inspects maintained schools (nursery, primary, secondary and special schools and pupil referral units), state-funded independent schools such as academies and certain non-maintained special schools in England. All of these types of schools have been included in this response. On
Schools receive an overall effectiveness judgement on inspection. They are graded on a four point scale to be outstanding, good, satisfactory or inadequate. Schools which receive an inadequate overall effectiveness judgement require significant improvement or are placed into special measures.
Table A below shows the number of maintained schools judged inadequate for overall effectiveness at their section 5 inspection during the academic year 2010/11 and the academic year 2011/12 up to
In September 2009, Ofsted implemented a policy of more proportionate inspection using risk assessment as an aid to scheduling the inspection of good and outstanding schools. We deliberately set out to inspect a greater proportion of previously satisfactory or inadequate schools each year and a smaller proportion of previously good or outstanding schools.
In September 2010, Ofsted deferred the inspections of previously outstanding schools and, as signalled in the Education Act 2011, is no longer routinely inspecting previously outstanding schools. These schools will not be inspected unless a complaint has been raised or the risk assessment process identifies that these schools would benefit from an inspection.
Accordingly, the sample of schools inspected during any given period is unlikely to be representative of the nation as a whole.
Statistics covering the outcomes of all inspections carried out in each academic year can be found at:
The most recent official statistics release covering the outcomes of maintained school Inspections carried out between
Table A: Schools in England and North Swindon constituency judged inadequate for their overall effectiveness in each academic year 2010/11 and 2011/12 (year to date) | |||||||
2010/11 | 2011/12(1) | ||||||
Region | Phase | Number inspected | Number inadequate | % inadequate. | Number inspected | Number inadequate | % inadequate |
England | Nursery | 126 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 1 | 1 |
Primary | 4,249 | 230 | 5 | 3,146 | 236 | 8 | |
Secondary | 894 | 70 | 8 | 632 | 69 | 11 | |
Special | 328 | 14 | 4 | 199 | 7 | 4 | |
PRU | 129 | 7 | 5 | 117 | 6 | 5 | |
All schools | 5,726 | 321 | 6 | 4,197 | 319 | 8 | |
North Swindon | Nursery | 0 | — | — | 0 | — | — |
Primary | 13 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Secondary | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Special | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | |
PRU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | |
All schools | 18 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
(1) Year to date. |
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