King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy

Overview: King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy is a school that has made significant improvements in attendance and behaviour, with pupils behaving well and feeling safe around school. However, the school still needs to improve its overall attainment and progress, with many measures remaining below national comparisons.

Strengths:

• Attendance is improving overall and is now above the national average.
• Pupils behave well and are sensible and respectful in lessons.
• The school has a well-embedded approach to identifying, assessing and meeting pupils' needs.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities benefit from effective, targeted help.
• The school provides a range of effective support for pupils facing wider barriers, such as those related to mental health.

Areas to improve:

• Overall attainment and progress are modest, with many measures remaining below national comparisons.
• Weaknesses in how the curriculum is taught mean that some pupils are still not achieving as well as they should.
• The curriculum is not implemented consistently well across all subjects.
• Leaders have a clear strategic approach for improving the curriculum and teaching, but the effectiveness of teaching remains varied.
• Leaders demonstrate a clear understanding of the school's strengths and areas for development, but the impact of their work remains inconsistent.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.