Headteachers have questioned the evidence used to support claims by Ofsted that state secondary schools are failing their most able pupils.
A report, The Most Able Students: Are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools? found that more than a quarter of previously high-flying pupils have failed to achieve at least a B grade in English and mathematics.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, blamed a culture of low expectations in schools for things going “wrong very early” in children’s secondary education.
He said pupils arrived from primary schools “bright-eyed and bushy tailed” but then failed to reach their potential.
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