To cut a very long story short; the head is a "character". A couple of years ago the LA wanted to close the school as there are hundreds of empty desks in the authority and a large proportion of the pupils at the school came from neighbouring areas (parents living closer preferring other schools in the city). Head had also refused to go coed, which meant that another school which wanted to go coed couldn't do so. There was a lot of unmet demand for coed, non-denominational school places.
Head evaded closure by taking advantage of the government's policy to allow schools graded as Outstanding to convert to academies (although they had to start admitting boys, which at least allowed the boys school to admit girls).
Ofsted report not long after gave another Outstanding. Then a little over a year later, in December 2013, the school had a surprise Section 8(?) safeguarding inspection. This became a full inspection, which concluded mid-December 2013.
The safeguarding inspection report has been published, but the full report has not. Neither the head nor Ofsted are saying why. The whole thing is extremely fishy and it's not something I've heard of happening before - this isn't just a case of a school challenging a report, from what I can see.
Sorry that's way longer than I hoped 
The local paper is all over it but I've seen nothing in TES or elsewhere:
Local news article - one of several!
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JohnnyBarthes · 21/02/2014 20:05
Oh yes talkin. I once mentioned to the school staff that the Head often glared angrily at my disabled son causing him to feel upset and intimidated. I was told not to worry as the Head was like that to all the children! 
it is rather amusing especially as the Chair has allegedly issued the letter without consulting the rest of the governing body.
She certainly has some chutzpah, particularly after that phone call she allegedly made. I would love to have been a fly on the wall at their meeting today - I bet it was a bit livelier than usual.
It will be interesting to see what happens next.
it isn't linked to on the link you posted to Ofsted? The section 8 report is there, the 'safeguarding meets requirements' one, but the section 5 one, which is on that charity website, the one which isn't very complimentary about the head, that's not on the Ofsted website.
johnny
Shame the article is bilge as the report is linked on the Ofsted website clear as day (I posted the link yesterday)
and I agree with prh47
there are still loads and loads of schools that are excellent despite becoming academies
I'm less convinced that there are any schools that are excellent because of becoming academies
Actually Talkin the volume of "Strongly Agree" responses to the "well managed" - is that unusual? When I've responded (to ds's current secondary and old primary) I had to say "Don't Know", because I genuinely didn't. I've never seen one of my child's school's accounts and not known enough generally to feel able to judge
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