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
- Section 8 school inspection handbook
- Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
- Payments for contracted Ofsted inspectors
News and communications
- Termination warning notice to Nuneaton Academy
- Termination warning notice to Landewednack Community Primary School
- Termination warning notice to Wendron Church of England Primary School
- Termination warning notice to The Castle Rock School
- Termination warning notice to Severndale Specialist Academy
Research and statistics
- 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
- State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2018
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