Tibshelf Community School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school Pupils are making good progress across a range of subjects and across all year groups. Leaders and managers have worked with a sense of urgency. School improvement has been rapid.

Teachers with responsibility for subjects show a good understanding of how well students and groups of students are doing. Results are improving. The gaps between disadvantaged students and other students have narrowed quickly over time.

The school's Autism Resource Centre is excellent. Pupils who access this provision make excellent progress. Governors have a good understanding of the school's strengths and areas for improvement.

Teaching has improved ...strongly since the last inspection. Good teaching is enabling pupils to make good progress. Pupils behave well in lessons, around the school site and at break and lunchtime.

Pupils enjoy learning and are keen to do well. Pupils say that they feel safe at school. They are punctual to school and lessons.

They attend well. Pupils are well prepared for the next stage of their education. The numbers who go on to further education, employment or training are high.

The values of tolerance and respect are a core part of the school's ethos. Relationships between pupils and staff are good. The curriculum provides good opportunities for pupils to be successful and progress after they leave school.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Leaders and managers have not ensured that the school's new data systems are used consistently to set the most challenging targets for pupils. Leaders have not ensured enough consistency in teachers' use of assessment to ensure all pupils make strong progress. The school's strategies for closing any gaps in the performance of different groups are not yet fully embedded across the school.

Teachers' expectations are occasionally too low with regard to the quantity and quality of work produced by the boys.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized secondary school. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is similar to the national average.

The very large majority of pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs or disability is lower than the national average. The school has a designated specialist provision, the ARC, for up to 15 students with autism.

The provision takes pupils from across the county and they are on the main school roll. There are currently 16 pupils accessing the ARC. There are 12 pupils who receive part of their education at Broomfield College as part of a special programme to meet their particular needs.

Seven pupils receive part of their education at Chesterfield College. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for the attainment and progress of pupils by the end of year 11. The headteacher took up post in September 2014.