Seema Malhotra – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Seema Malhotra on 2015-12-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in rural areas rated by Ofsted as inadequate became academies in 2014-15.

Edward Timpson

In the academic year 2014/15, 33 academies were opened in rural locations, whose predecessor schools had been deemed ‘inadequate’ in Ofsted inspections prior to conversion.