We’ve developed a gadget for those of you who use the iGoogle home page. It will inform you of the most recent Ofsted inspections in your area as soon as they become available.

Every time that you visit your iGoogle home page, the gadget will update itself with all of the latest reports for your LEA. Click the Google button below to get the gadget:

Please tell us what you think of it!

Click here to see the list of establishments judged “Outstanding” by Ofsted in December.

It is often difficult to see the big picture when talking about Ofsted. So this is the first of a few posts that will take a broader look at the inspection judgements we have in our database. The following chart shows a summary of the 40,000 new-style Ofsted reports that have been published over the past 2 - 3 years:

The chart shows that there is a relatively small number of “Outstanding” nurseries and a relatively high number of “Inadequate” secondary schools. Also of note are the high number of establishments hovering around the “Satisfactory” grade.

The government’s secondary school league tables (based on exam performance) have been published for this year. These tables have been loaded into our database.

Just a reminder that our tables are based on Ofsted inspection results, not these exam results, to give you a fairer and more consistent view. We will only use exam results in the case where two schools have very similar inspection outcomes.

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%.