Schools: Sponsorship
(asked on 18th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2016 to Question 51314, what the Ofsted categories of assessment are for each (a) academy school and (b) free school sponsored by a (i) grammar school or (ii) multi-academy trust run by a grammar school.
As at the 1 March there were 14 multi academy trusts established by grammar schools approved to sponsor a total of 31 academies. The vast majority of the schools included in this data were previously underperforming when taken over by multi-academy trusts established by grammar schools. Since then nearly three quarters (71%) of those inspected have improved their Ofsted judgement – with more than half now rated good or outstanding.
There is one free school sponsored by a grammar school.
The Ofsted categories for each school sponsored by a grammar school are as follows:
Ofsted category | No. of academies | No. of free schools | Total |
Outstanding | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Good | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Requires Improvement | 7 | 1 | 8 |
Inadequate | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Not visited | 14 | 0 | 14 |
Source: Ofsted MI – 28 February 2017
In total, 140 grammar schools are voluntary converter academies. Of these, 117 have an Ofsted category as ‘Outstanding’, 20 are ‘Good’ and 3 ‘Require Improvement’.