The study claims that converter academies are improving at a faster rate than schools which remain under local authority control.
More than two-thirds of the 3,613 academies in England are schools which have converted since 2010, and these schools were more likely to have gone from “good” to “outstanding” following inspections, the report from the Department for Education (DfE) found.
However, teaching unions have pointed out that as converter academies consisted in the main of good and outstanding schools then the results are not surprising.
The DfE analysis examined inspection outcomes in 2012/13 in wake of the rapid expansion of academy schools, now England’s most common form of secondary school (56 per cent of secondary schools are now academies).
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