More small private schools receive 'good' or 'outstanding'

According to Ofsted inspection data of non-association independent schools, the large majority (75%) were judged either good or outstanding in their overall effectiveness at their most recent standard inspection. This is an increase of six percentage points since 31 August 2018.

However, there were still 15% of schools judged as requires improvement and 10% judged as inadequate.

A higher proportion of independent special schools were judged good or outstanding at their most recent inspection compared with other independent schools (83% and 67% respectively). Compared with last year, this is a 5 percentage point and a 6 percentage point increase respectively.

However, the proportion of independent schools that were judged to have ineffective safeguarding has reduced by two percentage points to 8% since 31 August 2018. Independent special schools are less likely to have ineffective safeguarding than other independent schools (4% and 10% respectively). All schools with ineffective safeguarding were judged as inadequate overall.