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Nearly 500 top-performing secondary schools were stripped of their “outstanding” rating overnight - after Ofsted introduced a new system for grading schools. Three Derby and Derbyshire schools have been affected by this change, as they were previously rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted.
The practice of issuing an overall one or two-word grade - either outstanding, good, requires improvement, or inadequate has been scrapped with immediate effect.
Ofsted will continue to inspect schools, but will now only issue gradings related to individual aspects of a school’s performance. During its latest round of inspections, carried out between September 1, 2023, and July 31 this year, Ofsted inspected 655 secondary schools.
Of those, 137 schools - about one in five, or 21% - were told they had achieved the highest possible rating of “outstanding” including three in Derbyshire, however these schools will no longer claim the highest rating. But including schools last
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