Thinking about Bath secondary schools, i know Beechen Cliff boys had a terrible ofsted a couple years ago which naturally rang alarm bells but it seemed to be based round 2 high profile incidents. So I wasn’t too concerned about academics and general school life. School then forced to join a multi academy trust (lots of local schools in it so no worries about that)
However exam results aren’t particularly stand out any more, they used to be best A level and GCSEs in the area but now seem just ok, came out average in recent league tables. And the most recent interim Ofsted report on website is very worrying, ok it’s boarding inspection only but considering it’s a year on from the full Ofsted I would have expected things to be much better. Sounds like small improvement have been made but still a lack of accountability and staff not being monitored effectively.
I wouldn’t be looking at boarding places so that doesn’t affect me directly but is this indicative of what’s happening in the wider school? I think any school can have a bad event happen to them but surely following that you would expect real improvement a year later.
Facilities, sport etc are great, lots of trips and so on which is appealing but that’s the icing on the cake. It’s the more serious stuff I want to know about