Inspection of maintained schools and academies
How schools maintained by local authorities are inspected: handbooks, guidance for schools and parents, grades, letters.
Guidance and regulation
- School inspection handbook
- Inspecting schools: guide for maintained and academy schools
- How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
- Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
- Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
News and communications
- Termination warning notice to Huish Episcopi Academy
- Termination warning notice to The John Warner School
- Termination warning notice to Farnborough Grange Nursery and Infant Community School
- Termination warning notice to Gospel Oak School
- Termination warning notice to Penwith Alternative Provision Academy
Research and statistics
- State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
- Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
- State-funded school inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2021
- State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021
- Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education
- Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for maintained schools and academies
- Publication of statistics on maintained schools and academies: inspections and outcomes
- 2012 maladministration investigation procedures
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2019 and 31 March 2020
- Analysis of Ofsted good and outstanding schools
- Academy trusts: notices about poor performance
- Children in good or outstanding schools: August 2018
- Analysis of Ofsted outcomes for sponsored academies since 2010