Happy New Year to you all. We’ve finally crunched the December numbers and can confirm that we analysed 1,617 Ofsted reports in December. The breakdowns are as follows:

The notable statistic is still the percentage of inadequate secondary schools. This has increased again this month, from 10% to 12%.

We have now uploaded this year’s performance league tables. Here’s how the tables have changed since last year:

• On average, Key Stage 2 (Year 11) SATs performance has improved from 81% to 82% of children achieving the target grade.
• 52% of primary schools performed better than last year.
• 48% of primary schools performed worse than last year.

The new league tables do not greatly affect the tables you find here on Find My School, because our ratings are based on the more reliable and respected Ofsted inspections. The only time we use these figures is to separate schools that have very similar Ofsted results.

We analysed 1,737  Ofsted reports in November. The breakdowns are as follows:

Compared to October, there is a huge jump in inadequate secondary schools, from 3% to 10%. Also of some interest is the upward surge of ‘Outstanding’ providers; from 10% last month to 15% this month.

Every month we’ll provide a full analysis of all Ofsted inspections. We analysed 1,846 Ofsted reports in October. The numbers have been crunched and here are the details:

You may notice that the percentage of “outstanding” nurseries is 5%, compared to 13% of schools. Although when looking at the “outstanding” and “good” ratings combined, you can see that between 60-70% of all nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools meet the mark. 

At the other end of the scale, you can see that 28% of Nurseries are “satisfactory” or “inadequate”. This is a significant improvement since 2006, when around 40% of nurseries fell into this category (See this statement by Ofsted). It will be interesting to see how this trend develops over the coming months.

Of the 12,000 “new-style” primary Ofsted reports we have analysed, the inspection category in which most primary schools excel is “Personal development and well-being”.  The average for all of England is 1.8, where 1 is “Outstanding” and 4 is “Inadequate”

And the most caring LEA is… Wokingham! The schools there averaged a score of 1.3. Click here to view them.

Did you know that ofsted don’t publish any special measures Ofsted reports during election season?