You are here:
Frequency of Ofsted inspections
Find out how often Ofsted inspects schools and get an idea of when your next inspection will be.
Contents
- Timings depend on your Ofsted grade and date of last inspection
- 'Outstanding' schools
- 'Outstanding' special schools, PRUs, alternative provision academies and maintained nursery schools
- 'Good' schools
- Schools which 'require improvement'
- 'Inadequate' schools
- New schools
- Ofsted can't always re-inspect in the given time frame
- Inspections can happen any time from 5 school days after autumn term starts
- Inspection triggers
- The difference between section 5 and section 8 inspections
Also in this topic: The inspection framework
- 2019 Ofsted inspection framework: what it means for your school
- How Ofsted inspects 'behaviour and attitudes'
- How Ofsted inspects 'leadership and management'
- How Ofsted inspects 'personal development'
- How Ofsted inspects 'quality of education'
- How Ofsted judges 'overall effectiveness'
- Ofsted 2019: how governance is inspected
- Ofsted inspection: pupil premium spending
- Ofsted inspection: role of link governors
- Ofsted inspection: safeguarding
- Ofsted inspection: SEN provision
- Ofsted: latest updates
- Section 48 inspections: guidance
- Section 8 inspections for 'good' schools
- What’s changing in the new Ofsted framework?
More from The Key
The Key has taken great care in publishing this article. However, some of the article's content and information may come from or link to third party sources whose quality, relevance, accuracy, completeness, currency and reliability we do not guarantee. Accordingly, we will not be held liable for any use of or reliance placed on this article's content or the links or downloads it provides. This article may contain information sourced from public sector bodies and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.