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Researchers analyse Ofsted’s “stuck” schools

In Ofsted’s 2018 annual report the inspectorate identified 190 “stuck” secondary schools, defined as those rated less than good in every inspection since September 2005.

Researchers at FFT Education DataLab have shown that these schools tend to have greater proportions of White British, Free School Meal (FSM) eligible pupils than other schools that also received a less than good outcome in September 2005 but subsequently improved their grade.

The analysis further shows that recovering from a less than good inspection judgement can take some time. On average it took 300 weeks, or more than six years, to get half of the schools rated satisfactory to good and a further 100 weeks to get half of those rated inadequate to good.

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