Astrea Academy Trust is “strong and improving”, but suspensions and exclusions remain “too high” and “too many” of its pupils don’t attend school regularly enough, an Ofsted evaluation has found.
The watchdog has completed a summary evaluation of Astrea, which is considered a turnaround trust and runs 26 schools in Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Cambridgeshire.
Batch inspections of nine of its academies saw two improve from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘good’, while another two ‘good’ schools maintained their grades.
Five schools had their first graded inspections since joining the trust. Three were judged ‘good’, one ‘requires improvement’ and another, Astrea Academy Woodfields, was graded ‘inadequate’.
