A Bristol school has received its fourth 'inadequate' Ofsted rating in six years with inspectors describing it as being "in disarray". It was the last ever inspection for Andalusia Academy in St Philips, as the school had already announced it would be closing its primary provision today (December 16) due to financial difficulties.
It had already closed its secondary provision in summer and said Ofsted's latest surprise inspection came just two days after it had already made the decision to shut down the rest of the school. The independent school, run by Bristol Islamic Schools Trust (BIST), has been offering full-time education since 2005 and is the city's only Islamic faith school.
However since criticism from Ofsted in 2016, it has struggled to convince the education watchdog of improvements and earlier this year the Department for Education threatened it with closure. The new report published yesterday (December 15), based on an inspection in November, read: "Many aspects of the school’s work are in disarray...The proprietor has been unable to resolve the deep-rooted failures that pervade the school.
