St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College

Overview

The inspection found that St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College is an outstanding provider where students thrive in a supportive and inclusive community. Leaders demonstrate high aspirations, ensuring that all learners, including those with high needs, achieve exceptional results and progress to their chosen destinations.

Strengths

• Students enjoy a "supportive, friendly and welcoming community" with "consistently high levels of attendance" and a culture of "kindness, mutual respect and high expectations".
• Teachers are "very well qualified" and deliver high-quality education, using effective strategies to help students build knowledge and achieve "high grades".
• The college provides "highly effective individualised support" for students with high needs, enabling them to "achieve alongside their fellow students".
• There is extensive careers guidance and employer involvement, with "almost all students who plan to progress to higher education secure offers from their first-choice university".
• Governors are "passionate and committed" to continuous improvement, holding leaders to account with "clear and highly detailed reports".

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure a "consistent approach to how stakeholders contribute to the design and implementation of the curriculum" across all subjects.
• The college needs to recruit enough students to run its four T-level programmes, as they have "not yet recruited enough students for them to run".

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."