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Mar 14, 2024 · Inspections between 1 September 2023 and 31 December 2023. So far in 2023/24, we have carried out 2,611 inspections. This academic year, we have carried out 2,611 inspections, including 1,604 ...
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- Summary
- Inspections between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023
- Schools at their most recent inspection
- Revisions to previous release
- Notes
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Key findings
In 2022/23, we carried out 7,239 inspections, a substantial increase from 4,669 in 2021/22. Comparing schools with the same previous grade, the inspection outcomes for each group of schools have been more positive in 2022/23 than in 2021/22. 89% of all schools are now good or outstanding at their most recent inspection, a small increase from 88% in August 2022.
In 2022/23, we carried out 7,239 inspections, a substantial increase from 4,669 in 2021/22.
In 2022/23, we carried out 7,239 inspections, including 3,722 graded inspections, 3,259 ungraded inspections and 258 monitoring or urgent inspections. This is a substantial increase from 4,669 in 2021/22, and the highest number of inspections we have completed in the last 5 years. This is largely because, this year, the Department for Education provided Ofsted with additional funding to catch up on the inspections that were missed during the COVID-19 pandemic and to inspect all schools at least once between April 2021 and August 2025.[footnote 1]
Comparing schools with the same previous grade, the inspection outcomes for each group of schools have been more positive in 2022 to 2023 than in 2021 2022.
The outcomes from the inspections this year continue the positive trend seen last year, and 88% of the schools that had a graded or an ungraded inspection were judged to be good or outstanding. Comparing schools with the same previous grade (see figure 1 and figure 3), the graded inspection outcomes for each group of schools have been even stronger this year than last year.
89% of all schools are now good or outstanding at their most recent inspection, a small increase from 88% in August 2022.
89% of all schools are now good or outstanding at their most recent inspection, a small increase from 88% in August 2022, and 86% in August 2021 (just before inspections resumed after being paused during the COVID-19 pandemic). Both primary and secondary schools have seen a small increase this year, (from 89% to 90% of primary schools, and 80% to 82% of secondary schools).
Figure 4: Most recent overall effectiveness of state-funded schools, over time
1. Percentages are rounded and may not add to 100.
2. Data for each point in time has been revised and is now based on the current methodology, to include predecessor schools.
3. Numbers of schools are in brackets.
The provisional data in the previous release related to inspections that took place between 1 September 2022 and 31 December 2022, with the reports published by 7 February 2023. Revised data for inspections in this period is provided in tables 1R and 2R of the data file accompanying this release: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2023, charts and tables.
This revised data includes an additional 110 full inspections that had not been published by 7 February 2023, but were published by 30 September 2023. These inspections resulted in the following number of additional judgements at each overall effectiveness grade:
•6 outstanding
•40 good
•39 requires improvement
•25 inadequate
The purpose of these official statistics is to disseminate the data on school standards collected through Ofsted’s role as an inspectorate. They provide information about how the judgements of schools have changed over time. They vary across different phases of education and different parts of the country.
This official statistics release reports on the outcomes of state-funded school inspections carried out under sections 5 and 8 of the Education Act 2005. We carried out these inspections between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023. This release includes all inspections published by 30 September 2023. It also includes the most recent inspections and outcomes for all schools that we have inspected, as at 31 August 2023.
Throughout this release, we use the term ‘schools’ to cover all local authority-maintained schools, state-funded academies and non-maintained special schools in England that section 5 of the Education Act 2005 requires us to inspect.
We carried out inspections between September 2015 and August 2019 under the common inspection framework.
Since September 2019, we have carried out inspections under the education inspection framework.
You can find an explanation of the main uses of this data, further contextual information and the arrangements for quality assurance in the methodology report. The methodology report provides information about the strengths and limitations of the statistics.
Definitions of terms are in the statistical glossary.
Contacts
If you are a member of the public and have any comments or feedback on this publication, please contact Louise Butler on 03000 131 457 or the schools data and analysis team on inspectioninsight@ofsted.gov.uk. Press enquiries should be sent to our press team, at pressenquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following for their contribution to this statistical release: Chris Foley, Matthew Spencer and Sam Trapp.
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