Ofsted: what scrapping single-word inspection grades will mean for teachers

By Rachel Harding, Research Fellow in Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
Andrew Clapham, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Nottingham Trent University

The government has announced that Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, will no longer give schools a headline grade of outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.

Instead, state schools will this year receive grades in a number of sub-categories, such as behaviour and attitudes and leadership and management. A new “report card” system will be rolled out from September 2025.

There has long been debate…

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