Ofsted

Please find below our most recent Ofsted reports, and relevant information from the Department for Education Performance Tables.

In September 2024, Ofsted graded Shirley Heath as Outstanding in all areas – Quality of Education; Behaviour and Attitudes; Personal Development and Leadership and Management. We are the only school in Solihull, since 2019, to have received the judgement of outstanding in a graded inspection. The quote below is from the Ofsted handbook - 

466. Outstanding is a challenging and exacting judgement. In order to reach this standard, inspectors will determine whether the school meets all the criteria for good under that judgement, and does so securely and consistently.

467. In other words, it is not enough that the school is strong against some aspects of the judgement and not against others, but it must meet each and every good criterion. In addition, there are further criteria set out under the outstanding judgement, which the school will also need to meet.

In order for the Leadership and Management/Quality of Education/ Personal Development /Behaviour and Attitudes judgement to be outstanding, the school must meet all of the good criteria securely and consistently and it must meet the additional outstanding criteria. Each area must be exceptional.