Moved miles away for a better school now inadequate

[Makeastand]

Hi all, first ever thread on here so please bear with!

I'm just reaching out as we've recently made a life changing move three hours across the country for a better area where we used to live, including for what was until the other month, an outstanding secondary school. Thing is, as soon as we get here, the school is rated inadequate with reports of poor safeguarding and bullying problems. The more I've looked into it, the more (although results are excellent) this seems to be a factor. I'm now missing people from back home and wondering if after only a few months, we should make the drastic step to move back. We have gained on the housing market even in that time as property where we are currently is more expensive, so we could get a nicer place than we had before should we move back. Thing is that obviously the deadline for secondary school admissions has now gone so I don't know where I'd get my DD into. Just feeling so lost and confused and worried I've now made a huge mistake. Anyone with similar stories please let me know your thoughts, thanks.

Are you homesick? You mention missing your support network. Are your dc happy or unhappy with the move?

You said you were once happy there, past tense. Do you want to move back?

@Makeastand it isn't a grammar school?
Recently, one was rated inadequate due to bullying etc, but a lot of parents with dc at the school were very surprised.

Almost all the schools in our area used to be outstanding a year ago.

Now ofsted have actually got off their backsides and started inspecting them, every single one had been downgraded, varying from good to Inadequate.

Personally if you were so vain to move for a school that was probably last inspected a decade ago, then you've got what was coming to you really.

People in our experience choose an outstanding school, probably last inspected over a Decade ago as a vanity play, rather than because its actually performing better than the good rated school thst was last inspected last year.

But surely now that they have been rated in adequate, they will have to get their act together.

So I personally wouldn't worry. It would be more worrying if they hadn't been inspected. Then you would never have known about the safeguarding and bullying issues.

Yup. Politics.

Are you in Kent 😬

If its the school I’m thinking of I think it’ll turn things around quickly now the headmistress has left.

Er the number of posters saying "Is it X / Yshire" just proves how many previously outstanding schools are being downgraded currently.