Well done Carisbrooke High School.
The school’s just-published Ofsted report confirms it is “a good school where students and staff are well cared for and know the importance of their community. The school provides a good quality of education that is improving rapidly and student achievement is rising. This is due to outstanding leadership and management…”
Also “outstanding” is the curriculum, and the personal development and well-being of students.
This ringing endorsement of the school begs the question as to why the local authority in its school reorganisation proposals isn’t planning to apply for a waiver for Carisbrooke High to become a new secondary school without being opened up to competition.
According to the Council’s Committee Report to Cabinet on School Organisation this is because our high schools are “unlikely to be seen as successful schools in the terms of the 2006 [Education] Act”.
If the marked improvements at Carisbrooke don’t deem it “successful” I’d be interested to know what would.
And, reason two: “None of the current high schools either collectively or individually have consistently achieved national standards at GCSE.”
It is interesting that the same rationale was given in the Cabinet report for the 3rd of June 2008 meeting, but without the word “consistently”.
Now that Carisbrooke’s results have exceeded national standards it would appear that that the goalposts have been shifted.
Christ the King will be exempt from competition because of its religious ethos.
