Members of Park View's senior management team are feeling pleased with themselves. This school has been on a remarkable journey in the last 16 years, the latest stage of which will culminate in academy status this summer. It has clawed its way out of special measures from being, according to the league tables, the worst school in England's second city to becoming one of the best, and all this in Alum Rock, an area notorious for social disadvantage and gang culture. Just 4% of pupils were gaining five or more A-C grades at GCSE in the late 1990s – last summer that figure was 72%.Read more here
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
How did they do it?
The first school in 2012 judged 'outstanding' by Ofsted.
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