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This is a good school The school has improved on all fronts. Senior leaders have addressed previous inadequacies with verve and vigour. Many aspects of the school's work have transformed.
The school is well placed to improve further in the future. Leaders' effective actions and teachers' hard work have made sure teaching is now good overall. Through a well-designed curriculum that meets pupils' needs, teachers challenge pupils effectively, often stretching and deepening their thinking.
Pupils make good progress across the majority of subjects. They learn intently and purposefully. Improvements in a number of subjects are impressive, especially in English. ... Disadvantaged pupils' achievement has risen and continues to improve. Students in the sixth form achieve highly and sometimes exceptionally well, for example in mathematics. They act as excellent role models to younger pupils, contributing a great deal to the life of the school.
Students behave impeccably. The majority of pupils attend regularly, enjoy school, take pride in their work and behave well. Pupils value the respectful, tolerant and caring ethos of the school, which helps them to thrive.
Pupils' personal development is a major strength of the school. Pupils rightly feel safe. Teachers and leaders are held to account well, including through the highly effective work of the local governing body and the trust.
Accountability focuses sharply on pupils' achievement during key stage 4 and in the sixth form, less so on pupils' progress during key stage 3. While most subject leaders make a valuable contribution to improvements, a small number are less effective. Senior leaders are providing the support they need.
Variability in the quality of teaching and the rate of pupils' progress remains in a minority of areas. Leaders are taking the right action to address these issues.
Information about this school
The school joined River Learning Trust on 1 March 2017.
The CEO of the trust, however, started working with the school during the latter part of 2016. The trust has provided advisory support. The school also brokered support from The Oxford Academy to help improve the work of specific subject leaders.
Members of the trust monitor the work of trustees. Trustees maintain the strategic oversight of all the schools in the trust, largely through their work on three trustee boards (staff, governor, education) and three trustee committees (resources, impact, risk and audit). Trustees remain independent of local governing bodies.
The local governing bodies of each school in the trust are accountable to the trustees. Governors are responsible for the strategic and operational oversight of the particular school they serve. The school does not use any alternative provision.
The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The school complies with Department for Education guidance on what academies should publish. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' progress and attainment.
