Sentences with phrase «sponsored academies rated»

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«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

This is the first academy chain to give up all of its schools, of which five of the 12 sponsored by the group are rated as «inadequate».

Between 2010/11 and 2016/17, 4,674 schools, mainly those that Ofsted had rated as good or outstanding, became academies without a sponsor.

To support the fact that councils are doing a good job at keeping standards high in schools, the report reveals that 89 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as good or outstanding, compared to 62 per cent of sponsored academies; 88.5 per cent of convertor academies; and 82 per cent of free schools.

Furthermore, Ofsted inspection ratings were more likely to increase in schools that became sponsored academies 2002 - 2009 which corroborated Key Stage 4 performance gains.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

Ofsted's ratings for schools sponsored by universities and private schools has also led the former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell to question government plans to boost the involvement of these institutions in academies.

Schools Week revealed last year how academy chains were switching sponsors at an increasing rate — with three changing hands in 2012 compared to 26 in 2014.

Internal government figures, released after a freedom of information request, show more than one in four inadequate secondary schools that became sponsored academies were rated inadequate again.

Some sponsored academies have been around for a few years which raises the question how far do academies go to show this rate of improvement?

Test results in sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.

When only those on roll by year 11 were included, sponsored academies had a 46.3 per cent pass rate for five GCSEs at A * to C.

Where Ofsted rates an academy as «inadequate», the school can face «instant intervention», which could mean being rapidly taken over by another sponsor.

Three of the four schools run by Midland Academies Trust, which is sponsored by North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, are rated «requires improvement»; two have fallen from «good» since the trust took over and another only recently rose from «inadequate».

Ofsted's annual report shows more than a third of sponsored academies, both primary and secondary, are currently rated as requiring improvement, a higher proportion than local authority schools.

Overall, GCSE pass rates in sponsored academies fell 5.2 per cent compared with a 4.1 per cent drop in maintained schools.

The limited nature of the sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».

Funds are only given to trusts supporting either an «inadequate» - rated maintained school that is not converting to academy status, or an «inadequate» academy which is not moving sponsor.

Inspection ratings for 4,103 converter academies showed 89 % rated good or outstanding but among the 955 sponsored academies inspected the figure was only 65 %, according to the analysis.

The number of sponsored academies currently rated as good or outstanding is actually 58 per cent, as previously explained by Schools Week.

There are wide variations within the academy category, with sponsored academies, which are forced into academy status after poor Ofsted ratings, predictably faring worse than converter academies, which must be rated good or outstanding before being allowed to convert.

«Failure is not an Option,» a study sponsored by the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio State University, focused on nine top urban schools, including MC2STEM and the excellent - rated Citizens Academy charter school, also in Cleveland.

New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of the biggest academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.

Despite the setback, the DfE said it expected the rate of academy conversions to increase, bolstered by the Education and Adoption Act that came into force in March, giving the department extra powers to intervene in «coasting» schools and have them taken over by academy sponsors.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

Fears about the availability of good sponsors for increasing numbers of academies has led to speculation that the government may look to the 16 to 19 institutions — 90 per cent of which are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — to lead multi-academy trusts.

Schools Week revealed last month that half of the academies currently sponsored by grammars were rated as requires improvement or inadequate by Ofsted.