A LOCAL education authority which has seen the proportion of its schools rated as good or outstanding fall significantly behind the national average has created a team of analysts to send into schools to drive up standards.
North Yorkshire County Council has revealed it will be offering schools help after identifying high-level issues at 23 of its schools and moderate concerns about 79 others, representing a total of 40 per cent of its schools.
While a smaller proportion of the county’s council-run secondary schools have been rated as performing well by Ofsted, as of last month, just 80.5 per cent of primary pupils in the county attended a good or outstanding school compared to the national average of 88.2 per cent.
A meeting of the authority’s executive heard the issue was being compounded by the authority being unaware of how well its schools were meeting educational needs because there had been very few Ofsted inspections since the pandemic.
Councillor Patrick Mulligan, the council’s executive member for education, said areas of concern included…
