My son school inadequate

[maxinozka]

Hi,
My son's school was graded inadequate in last Ofstead report from January 2016 with special measure. School became an academy and has support from another academy with outstanding Ofstead at the moment. Would you try with all your strength to move him to another school? He is very skillful boy and was one of the best at primary school. Can really school improve from inadequate to let's say good school and keep this trend , so child education is in line with UK average or is it better to change the school, please? Would you still trust the school with inadequate Ofsted in the past to truly educate your child appropriately?
Thank you

I'd judge it based on your son. Is her making progress that your happy with? Will he have the curricular and extra curricular opportunities you would like? What specifically led to the rating? OFSTED reports can be a blunt instrument that don't tell the full story of a school.

My dd goes to an academy that is similar. It was closed down for failing and a new head and deputy were brought in from an outstanding academy. The school was rebranded with a new name, uniform etc.

It's just had a 'good' ofsted and I was pleased it wasn't outstanding as I have another dd to get in yet!

I think it's a brilliant school.

Depends where the school has been marked down and how that might impact on the child. Much of a report is about processes rather teaching and value added, so you need to look at the detail and how/if that matches your experiences. How old is your ds?

My DSS school went into special measures in sept 2015, it is now good nearly outstanding following a new academy coming in.
From the bottom the only way is up!
I'd keep him there

If hes doing well where he is then no I wouldn't move him. OFSTED reports really don't mean anything to parents. They don't offer any realistic idea of how the school will benefit their children.

My DD goes to a school with a 'Good' OFSTED rating but its a bloody awful school with some very questionable ways of teaching and dealing with problems or rather not dealing with them. The children are rude and cause dreadful problems in the local community and the police are requested to attend around 2 - 3 times a week most recently for a student carrying a knife in school and other students smoking weed. This school is in a 'nice, middle class area' so probably not something people would expect. Very few students are selected to represent the school just the same few names every time and the school has selective memory when it comes to remembering which students actually competes at a county level in a sport outside of school.

I'm looking at a different high school for my DS which is rated 'Requires Improvement' but the children who go there are better behaved in public, achieve just as well academically as DDs school, the children generally seem happier and more engaged with genuine ambition. They have a large number of students that represent the school frequently and its particularly encouraged if you already compete outside of school. The local Police Officer tells me he hasn't been called to that school in over 12 months.

OFSTED is a bit like the tax man. Just because the tax man tells you a business got their accounts in completed in full and on time it doesn't mean its a good business from its customers point of view. Schools tick all the boxes on the paperwork and get a good report for doing so. It doesn't mean its a good or bad school for your child.

You need to think about how your child benefits from what the school offers and not whether OFSTED thinks they ticked enough boxes, some of which have absolutely no bearing on how good a school is. I believe that a local school got down graded to RI one of the reasons stated was because their BAME numbers were too low and OFSTED felt the school did too little to encourage more BAME students to attend the school. The reason its so low is because the very few BAME families in the area (on the last census less than 1% in the catchment of the school) and they tend to send their children to the local Independent School or Grammar schools and not the local high schools. Other than kidnapping the students and forcing them to attend the school there really is very little anyone can do about that yet OFSTED felt it was a point where the school was 'failing' on.

Looking at what the school has failed at, are these things which would be problems for your DS given that he may well be in higher sets? Is your DS self-disciplined or easily led? Is he quiet in class or able to speak up?

All three of my DCs went or are going through a school which is in and out of special measures like it's caught on the door handle. All three DCs are self-disciplined so never had any problems in that regard. Two DCs are academically able and left year 11 with all As. One DC very quiet and less academically able. No problem in class so dropped below the radar. Left school with fairly poor GCSEs.

Your DS is an individual rather than a statistic. Students can do very well even in poor schools.

Dc's school was closed down and new academy opened on new site. New head.. new uniform.. new name 6 years ago
It's now oversubscribed