What is an OFSTED report?

What is an OFSTED report?

Ralph Lucas (Editor, The Good Schools Guide) gives expert video advice on: Where can I get a copy of a school's exam results?; Where can I get a copy of the school's OFSTED report?; What are league tables? and more...

All state schools are inspected supposedly every four years by the Office For Standards in Education, or OFSTED. They produce, these days, a fairly concise report which will tell you what they think of the school, and how they rate it. There's a table at the back showing how they rate each aspect of the school life and the things they think the school needs to do better. So it's a professional report. These people are teachers, professional educators who are going around. It is not looking at the way a school is, but it is looking at how a school operates as an educational establishment. It's an absolutely key document to look at and understand, because it is telling you something about a school that you can't get in any other way.