High School graded Satisfactory by Ofsted

BEXHILL High School has been graded Satisfactory in its latest Ofsted report.

Ofsted inspector Patricia Metham and four additional inspectors were in the school for two days in June.

They say standards of achievement are proving "hard to move upwards" but there are "clear signs of progress."

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"This large non-selective school is on a split site. Students enter Year 7 with broadly average levels of attainment but there is a higher-than-average proportion of students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, principally moderate learning difficulties or issues relating to challenging behaviour.

"Planning is well advanced for a complete redevelopment of the school, scheduled for completion by autumn 2010."

Ofsted grades range from Grade 1 '“ Outstanding, through Grade 2 Good to Grade 4 Inadequate.

The report says: "Bexhill High School is providing a satisfactory quality of education at this stage in its progress towards substantial rebuilding and reorganisation.

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"Leadership and management are responding with energy and a vigorously articulated sense of purpose to the challenge of planning for the future whilst keeping a firm grasp on immediate priorities.

"The principal is to devote half his time to overseeing the new project, whose inception owes a great deal to his entrepreneurial drive.

"This has created opportunities for the development of strengths in senior and middle management. With persuasive and practical leadership from the two vice principals, these opportunities are being explored and exploited through a productive process of consultation with governors, staff, students and parents.

"Since standards and achievement are proving hard to shift upwards, the school reasonably judges the current impact of leadership and management to be satisfactory.

"There are, however, clear signs of progress and capacity to improve is good, founded on a realistic view of the school's strengths and weaknesses."