A school in Orpington has been rated as “inadequate” after an inspection by Ofsted.

Kemnal Technology College, located in Sevenoaks Way, appeared on a list of worst-performing schools compiled by the Daily Mail.

As of May 3, it listed 63 secondary schools in England that have been rated as inadequate by Ofsted.

Schools are rated in four categories: outstanding, good, requires improvement, and inadequate.

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The Orpington school received the rating in its last inspection in May 2019.

Since then in February, Ofsted said the school was taking effective action in improving its rating.

It was rated inadequate for quality of teaching, learning, assessment, and outcomes for pupils.

The school was also required to improve the effectiveness of leadership and management.

Following the inspection, three monitoring visits have taken place.

These were in October 2020, January 2021, and February 2022.

In the January visit, Ofsted said school leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action in providing education.

Ofsted then decided in February that leaders, and those responsible for governance, were taking effective action in removing the serious weaknesses designation.

The News Shopper asked Kemnal School what was being done to improve its rating following the inspection.

Mr Christian Cavanagh, executive Headteacher responded: "We refer you to our latest Ofsted report which demonstrates the significant progress the school has made.”

The government's education watchdog confirmed that schools in England were making good progress to recover from the last two years.

However, many will continue to face challenges, and some may have longer-term consequences, according to Ofsted.

Amanda Spielman, Ofsted's chief inspector, said unregistered schools have failed to equip children with British values, basic numeracy, and literacy skills, as reported by Daily Mail.

She said a “small proportion” of cases have been linked to “genuine extremism”.

She added the wider concern is that there is a large proportion of children who are effectively “very segregated from mainstream society” and some do not know the basics that “we expect of all children who are born as British citizens.”

Amanda explained: “We see lots of staff without experience or qualifications, people with criminal records.”

Kemnal is the only school in south east London to have made the list.

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