The first Ofsted reports for schools without headline grades have been published by the watchdog, offering a first glimpse at the new-look documents.
Reports for 15 schools inspected on September 24, just after inspections resumed for the current academic year, include one for the prominent Reach Academy Feltham.
All of the schools have received at least four sub-judgment grades – for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and management.
Some have also been rated on their early years or sixth form provision.
But unlike schools inspected up until the end of last academic year, none have been awarded a single headline grade – after the government did away with them.
Several schools, including Reach Feltham, have been rated ‘outstanding’ across the board, while one – Langham Village School, Norfolk – had a combination of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ grades. In previous reports, it would have been ‘good’ overall.
Most of the rest were rated ‘good’ in every sub-judgment except one – Howletch Lane Primary School, County Durham – which had its quality of education rated ‘requires improvement’.
Under the previous approach, it would have been rated ‘RI’ overall.
It is worth pointing out that reports that rate schools positively get published more quickly because they are less likely to be challenged. That should explain why only positive reports have been published so far.
Of the fifteen schools, nine were primaries, two were secondaries, two were special schools and one was an all-through school.
Six were council maintained schools, four were converter academies, three were sponsored academies, one was a voluntary-aided and another was a free school.
Four had not been inspected before in their current form, while some had not been inspected for a long time, including one not visited since 2011.
The first new school reports
| School name | Previous grade | New grades (quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management) | Report | |
| Stokenchurch Primary School, High Wycombe | Outstanding | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/110342 | |
| Howletch Lane Primary School, County Durham | Good | RI-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/114198 | |
| Baytree School, Weston-super-Mare | Good | O-O-O-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/109409 | |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hindley Green | Good | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/130955 | |
| Huntingdon Academy, Nottingham | Not previously inspected | O-O-O-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/137550 | |
| The Morley Academy, Leeds | Outstanding | O-O-O-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/136392 | |
| Bank View School, Liverpool | Outstanding | O-O-O-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/133441 | |
| Reach Academy Feltham, London | Outstanding | O-O-O-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/28/138266 | |
| The Magna Carter School, Surrey | Requires improvement | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/137116 | |
| Coates Way JMI and Nursery School, Watford | Good | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/117340 | |
| Langham Village School, Norfolk | Outstanding | G-O-G-O | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/120825 | |
| St Margaret’s Church of England Academy, Bowers Gifford | Good | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/143453 | |
| Lime Academy Orton, Peterborough | Not previously inspected | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/147944 | |
| St Mary’s & St Peter’s Church School, Ilminster | Not previously inspected | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/147522 | |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School, Nailsea | Not previously inspected | G-G-G-G | https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/148962 | |
