UK School Ofsted Ratings: Percentage Rated Outstanding

Government Digital Service provides a dataset on the percentage of schools in England rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education. The data is provided in CSV format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. This specific indicator has been discontinued.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the proportion of schools achieving the highest inspection rating based on the Ofsted metric.
• Benchmark regional or local authority performance using the 'Outstanding' percentage data.
• Study the impact of policy changes on top-tier school ratings over time.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government Digital Service.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The indicator has been discontinued, limiting temporal analysis to historical periods.
• Row count and last update date are unknown, hindering assessment of scale and freshness.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Ofsted inspection reports.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

England, United Kingdom