Marriotts School

Strengths

• Leaders have taken decisive action to improve achievement, and pupils now typically achieve well.
• Public examination results improved in 2025, with attainment broadly in line with national averages.
• Disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes have strengthened recently.
• Post-16 students achieve well across academic and vocational subjects and progress to positive destinations.
• Effective reading support helps pupils secure the skills they need to access the full curriculum.
• Pupils behave well, classrooms are calm and purposeful, and relationships are warm and respectful.
• Attendance is broadly in line with national averages, supported by effective mental health and emotional support.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious and increasingly well taught, with secure teacher subject knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils receive effective adaptations and targeted support.
• The school has a strongly inclusive culture with tailored support, calm spaces and useful interventions.
• Personal development, careers education and pastoral care are well established and effective.
• Leaders are ambitious, staff feel well supported, and governors provide effective support and challenge.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture and concerns managed well.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not yet identify and address gaps in pupils’ knowledge consistently well across all subjects.
• Monitoring and quality assurance systems need further development so leaders can evaluate the impact of their actions more precisely and ensure consistency.
• Leaders should monitor the quality and impact of the personal development programme more closely.

• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools