Lincolnshire schools receive poor ratings from Ofsted

Lincolnshire schools have received a wave of bad grades from Ofsted this year.

Eighteen schools or academies require improvement in 2022, and four were given the lowest grade of inadequate.

It includes Caythorpe Primary School, which received a requires improvement grade from Ofsted.

Ofsted haven’t responded to the Local Democracy Reporting Service's questions about whether there has been a decline in school local standards.

This was the first full year of inspections for the regulatory body since covid, during which schools turned to remote learning and children often had to self-isolate.

Previously-exempt schools are also facing new inspections.

Just two Lincolnshire schools and academies got the top grade of outstanding this year and 41 schools were rated good.

Ofsted have said that schools across the country are struggling to recruit enough teachers, and there are still high levels of staff absence due to covid.

Since 2021, it has also scrapped its policy of not inspecting good or outstanding schools without specific concerns, meaning some are being visited for the first time in years.

Concerns have recently been raised about local education standards, with a councillor, Richard Davies, saying hundreds of children were being let down over at least a decade.That’s a scandal and we need to do something.”

Around 10% of all of Lincolnshire learning facilities are rated as requires improvement or inadequate, including those rated before the pandemic.