Ofsted Report

The Ofsted report was carried out in 2007, rating the school as outstanding. I hope that you will agree that the report is absolutely fantastic and shows that we have, in the words of the HMI in his letter to pupils, “a remarkable school.” To achieve an “outstanding” grade for both the main school and the sixth form is a brilliant achievement: it is commonly agreed that Ofsted have “raised the bar” in terms of its standards since the previous style of inspection. Our 2004 report was classed as “good” (grade 3) on a 7-point scale; now we are a grade 1 on a 4-point scale. This places our school in the top 13% of all secondary schools nationally. In Cumbria, I believe there are currently only four secondary schools out of 42 classed as “outstanding.”