Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what their definition is of a school that is 'stuck'; and how many of the 415 schools designated by Ofsted as stuck in 2019 remain in that category.

Ofsted’s report ‘Fight or flight? How ‘stuck’ schools are overcoming isolation’, published in January 2020, defined a stuck school as a school judged less than good in every inspection it had in a 13-year period up to 31 August 2019 which had at least 4 full inspections in the period.

Ofsted has not carried out any further analysis on this cadre of schools since that time. At the end of the 2020/21 academic year, however, Ofsted identified 390 stuck schools based on a comparable definition.