Nearly 90 per cent of state-funded schools judged good or outstanding

Ofsted's annual report shows that 88 per cent of all state-funded schools are now judged good or outstanding – up nearly two percentage points from 2021.

Seventy per cent of schools previously judged requires improvement are now good or outstanding following inspection last year.

Of 220 previously inadequate schools inspected last year, 66 per cent were graded good or better and only 5% remained inadequate.

Eighty-two per cent of further education providers are currently judged good or outstanding, the same as last year. However, the proportion of colleges judged good or outstanding has increased by 11 percentage points to 91 per cent.

In 2021/22, Ofsted inspected nearly 500 schools that were previously exempt because they had been judged outstanding. Schools that were last inspected before September 2015 had a graded inspection. Of these 370 schools, 17% retained their outstanding grade, while 17% were judged requires improvement and 4% were inadequate. The remainder were judged to be good. A higher proportion of these previously exempt schools are now judged less than good than is the case for all schools nationally.