Ofsted has failed the school, but parents are happy with it - which opinion to go by?

[emkana]

That's it, really - my friend's a bit worried because her boy is going to a primary school which has just failed Ofsted - but all the parents seem to be quite happy - so how important is the Ofsted opinion?

What are the parents like?

I'd always go by the parents' opinions, unless the parents were people whose opinions I believed to be so unreliable that even Ofsted was more trustworthy!

my ds started at school 2 yrs ago at a school which had failed and been put on special measures,but parents seemed happy and it seems to have been the making of the school,it has been given lots of help etc and my ds is doing well and he is quite a high achieving child.HTH.

if the parents are happy with the school then hopefully they will be very supportive in trying to improve things. I would say that it's a good position to be in. I taught in a school which received a satisfactory OFSTED but there was no way I would have sent my own children there.

What were the specific reasons it failed? and what is the schools plan to remedy them?

Thanks for your answers.
The school was criticized in many areas - leadership, teaching, curriculum...
And it already had a bad Ofsted five years ago, but failed to improve much since then.
A new headteacher is starting in September, maybe that will help.