Hundreds of schools in England have been downgraded after being re-inspected for the first time in years.
Since 2012, schools rated outstanding by watchdog Ofsted have been legally exempt from regular inspection, unless there were specific concerns. But in 2020 the exemption was lifted, leading to hundreds of schools being re-inspected.
And today Ofsted revealed that just 17% of the 370 schools which had a graded inspection retained their outstanding grade when they were re-inspected in the 2021-22 academic year. On average, the last inspection for the schools that were re-inspected was more than 13 years earlier, the watchdog added.
