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Three quarters of schools ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’

Seventy-four per cent of England’s schools are rated as “good” or “outstanding” – a rise of four per cent from a year ago.

Ofsted inspection outcomes for the latest quarter – October to December 2012 – show that of the 21,362 maintained schools, 21 per cent are “outstanding” and 53 per cent “good”.

The figures show that while the number of outstanding schools has remained the same, there has been a four per cent increase in schools graded as good, year-on-year.

A total of 2,102 schools were inspected during the last quarter, of which 309 were secondaries. Results for these inspections show that 10 per cent of the secondaries were judged outstanding (31 schools), and 46 per cent were rated as good (143). Meanwhile 34 per cent were “requires improvement” (104) and 10 per cent “inadequate” (31).

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