The introduction of new fields to school-level datasets which indicate whether the grades relate to an inspection of the school in its current form or a predecessor school. An additional category of schools that are inspected in their current form’ has ‘not been added to 6: Most recent overall effectiveness for schools, by type of ‘Chart education and phase’ of the Excel charts and tables file accompanying this release: University technical colleges and studio schools are now reported on as separate groups and no longer included in the academy’ category, although they ‘sponsor-led are still included in the academies’ and types of school’ categories. ‘all ‘all Alongside this release, we published a one-off analysis of the impact of the methodology changes. Please see to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for ‘Changes state-funded schools: An analysis of the changes’ which is available here: This includes detailed comparisons of the data before and after the methodology change, by phase, type of school, region, local authority area, and over time. In addition, this year there have also been some changes to which schools receive a short inspection and to the criteria for deciding whether short inspections convert to a full inspection. These policy changes affect the data and the trends seen in this release. More detail is available on the webpage confirms new arrangements for short ‘Ofsted inspections’: Throughout this release, the term is used to cover all local authority maintained ‘schools’ schools, state-funded academies and non-maintained special schools in England that Ofsted is required to inspect under section 5 of the . Main findings Schools at most recent inspection The changes to the statistical methodology following the consultation have led to a small reduction in the proportion of schools judged good or outstanding. Based on the previous methodology, 88% of schools would have been good or outstanding at 31 March 2018, compared to 86% based on the new methodology. Please see the accompanying release for a full analysis of the changes. ‘’: Figure 2 shows revised data as at 31 August for each year, based on the new methodology. This still shows a substantial growth in the proportion of good and outstanding schools over the past eight years. Since 31 August 2010 the proportion of outstanding schools has increased from 18% to 21%, and the proportion of good schools from 50% to 65%. Figure 2: Most recent overall effectiveness of schools over time
The introduction of new fields to school-level datasets which indicate whether the grades relate to an inspection of the school in its current form or a predecessor school. An additional category of schools that are ‘not inspected in their current form’ has been added to ‘Chart 6: Most recent overall effectiveness for schools, by type of education and phase’ of the Excel charts and tables file accompanying this release: University technical colleges and studio schools are now reported on as separate groups and no longer included in the ‘sponsor-led academy’ category, although they are still included in the ‘all academies’ and ‘all types of school’ categories. Alongside this release, we published a one-off analysis of the impact of the methodology changes. Please see ‘Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for state-funded schools: An analysis of the changes’ which is available here: This includes detailed comparisons of the data before and after the methodology change, by phase, type of school, region, local authority area, and over time. In addition, this year there have also been some changes to which schools receive a short inspection and to the criteria for deciding whether short inspections convert to a full inspection. These policy changes affect the data and the trends seen in this release. More detail is available on the webpage ‘Ofsted confirms new arrangements for short inspections’: Throughout this release, the term ‘schools’ is used to cover all local authority maintained schools, state-funded academies and non-maintained special schools in England that Ofsted is required to inspect under section 5 of the . Main findings Schools at most recent inspection The changes to the statistical methodology following the consultation have led to a small reduction in the proportion of schools judged good or outstanding. Based on the previous methodology, 88% of schools would have been good or outstanding at 31 March 2018, compared to 86% based on the new methodology. Please see the accompanying release ‘’: for a full analysis of the changes. Figure 2 shows revised data as at 31 August for each year, based on the new methodology. This still shows a substantial growth in the proportion of good and outstanding schools over the past eight years. Since 31 August 2010 the proportion of outstanding schools has increased from 18% to 21%, and the proportion of good schools from 50% to 65%. Figure 2: Most recent overall effectiveness of schools over time
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