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
- Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
- Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
News and communications
- Termination Warning Notice to St Aidan’s Church of England High School
- Termination warning notice to The Mead Educational Trust
- Termination warning notice to King Henry School
- Termination warning notice to Longfield Academy
- Termination warning notice to Roman Hill Primary School
Research and statistics
- 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
- State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2021
- State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2020
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