Sentence examples for a satisfactory school from inspiring English sources

"A satisfactory school …" The word "satisfactory" is uttered with a drawl of disapproval.

The chief inspector vowed to hold his nerve on controversial changes to the inspection system that will lead to a "satisfactory" school being reclassified as one that "requires improvement" and more frequent visits by officials to the worst schools.

There were two million children in 6,000 schools that had been judged satisfactory year after year after year, inspection after inspection, so you could be in a satisfactory school forever and a day, primary or secondary".

This too is a satisfactory school which suffers from inconsistent attainment among pupils.

Colegate Community primary school, at Colegate West, is a satisfactory school with well behaved pupils who make satisfactory progress.

However in 2012 it came out of special measures and Ofsted deemed it a "satisfactory" school with aspects of "good teaching" and "good management".

Adolescents with poorer grades in vocational school were categorised as having satisfactory school success.

Prof Becky Francis describes her move from King's College London to be director of education at the RSA – where she worked on developing Ofsted policy on satisfactory schools – as an "eye opener".

This is a satisfactory but improving school where the number of pupils entitled to free school meals is more than twice the national average.

This explains the chief schools inspector's pronouncement that satisfactory schools are "not good enough .Excellence and enjoyment are mutually exclusive.

Appointed chief inspector at Ofsted in 2012 and immediately says he wants to rebrand satisfactory schools as unsatisfactory and questions whether heads are being too generous to failing teachers.