Cranford Review March
2013
Ofsted says Cranford Community College is ‘Beyond Outstanding’ Pupils, Staff, Members of the Academy Trust Board and Parents at Cranford Community College are celebrating after being inspected by Ofsted in October 2012. The school is described as providing ‘a first-class education for the local community’.
achieve our mission of ‘Excellence in all areas’. We serve a community with few advantages which makes the rôle of the local school even more important. An excellent education creates advantage which is why having this school recognised as an ‘outstanding’ school is a major asset to our community.’
Cranford Community College has been awarded the highest possible grades in every aspect of its work and all 5 key Ofsted judgements are graded as ‘Outstanding’ for Pupil Achievement and Progress, Teaching and Learning, Pupil Behaviour, Leadership and Management, and Overall Effectiveness.
Cranford Community College became an Academy in April 2011 having improved continuously since Mr Prunty, whose leadership Ofsted describes as exceptional, became Headteacher at the school in 2002. Pupils at the school performed well above the national results this summer with over 71% achieving 5+ GCSE passes at A*-C including English and maths with one quarter of all grades being A* and A and with a 100% pass rate at A level where more than half the grades were A*-B and with the highest proportion of A* grades ever achieved..
The Sixth Form was also judged to be outstanding as was the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils. In the feedback, Inspectors told Headteacher, Kevin Prunty and Chair of the Academy Trust, Roger Owen, that the school was ‘beyond outstanding’ and repeatedly told them that what they had seen was ‘exemplary’ and ‘outstanding plus’. Inspectors were impressed by the high expectations and high aspirations in the school, the pupils’ exemplary attitudes to learning, their outstanding behaviour and the rich, innovative and engaging curriculum. Mr Prunty said ‘I am always very proud of what the pupils and staff achieve but it is absolutely great for their efforts and talents to be recognised in this way. I thank everyone who has contributed to the journey which got us here, for creating a wonderful, happy, ambitious school and for helping us to
Cranford Community College is the first secondary school in the borough to have been inspected under the new ‘raised bar’ inspection framework which came into force nationally on 1st September 2012. The new framework makes it significantly harder for schools to be graded as outstanding, gives little or no notice by informing the school no earlier than the afternoon before inspectors arrive, and tests whether what inspectors see during the inspection is typical and true over time. The Ofsted report is available to read in full on the school website www.cranford.hounslow.sch.uk Kevin Prunty (Executive Headteacher)