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Guidance: School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide

Ofsted

November 17
10:54 2022

Overview of the Ofsted IDSR:

This guide is for primary and secondary schools including those with a sixth form.

The Ofsted IDSR is now a web-based page showing data for Ofsted inspectors to use when preparing for and during inspection. The IDSR is designed to align with our school inspection handbook, so that areas of interest can be used to identify inspection trails.

The IDSR can contain sensitive information about schools and colleges. It is your responsibility to ensure that the IDSR is stored and shared appropriately. Please see our IDSR conditions of use and storage statement.

Performance data for 2022 should not be directly compared with 2019 and earlier. Comparisons should not be made between schools. This is because schools may have been affected differently by COVID-19. Historic performance data from 2019 and earlier indicates the school context before the pandemic. For 2022, the IDSR quintiles have been removed.

Responding to feedback, we have now introduced a button at the top of the IDSR that allows users to remove grey sentence content from the report. These grey sentences show that the area has been reviewed, but there is nothing significant to highlight.

The box to hide grey text is located at the very top of the report with the following text: Select to show only sentences for areas which are significant or exceptional. Underneath this text is a user defined box that you can select or deselect.

Once the box is ticked, the report will only display those sentences where something significant has been highlighted, for example, progress was significantly below national and in bottom 20%. You can deselect the box to bring the grey sentences back.

Access your schools Ofsted IDSR

As a web page via our new website

You can access it directly through our new Ofsted IDSR service or from the DfEs Analyse School Performance (ASP) service. You will need a DfE Sign-in account and associated permissions for the school(s). We recommend that users with more than one school use our direct link.

Sign-in: IDSR service

Download and use offline

If you want to use the IDSR offline you have several options.

Option 1 click the download this page button located at the top of the web page. This will download the HTML page automatically to your downloads folder. You do not need an internet connection to view and share it.

Option 2 click the print this page button. This will take you to the print configuration page where you can print as a hard copy document.

Option 3 click the print this page button. This will take you to the print configuration page where under printer you can select save as pdf. This will convert the page into a PDF which can then be saved and shared. (Please note that this is reliant on you having the correct up to date software. Older versions may not support this functionality.)

Ofsted IDSR 2022

As outlined in the school inspection handbook, inspectors will gather evidence of the impact of the quality of education from various sources. This includes nationally generated performance information about pupils progress and attainment. The IDSR can only provide a starting point, however. Inspectors want to see first-hand the quality of education as experienced by pupils and understand how well leaders know what it is like to be a pupil at the school.

Supporting data tables

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Supporting data tables used for the 2022 IDSR show national figures and quintile boundaries used to determine whether areas of interest sentences are triggered. To determine the quintile, the data for each school is percentile ranked from 1 to 100. If the score is in percentile 1 then this is the highest rank. If the score is in percentile 100 then this is the lowest rank. These ranks are then grouped into 5 quintiles. Ranks 1-20 are in quintile 1, ranks 21-40 are in quintile 2 and so on. The quintile boundaries document shows which scores fall within each quintile.

Master list of IDSR sentences - 2022

This file is in an OpenDocument format

The areas of interest sentence master list details all the sentences that are possible to have on the areas of interest pages of the 2022 IDSR.

The Ofsted IDSR has been designed to:

  • reduce the time spent preparing for an inspection

  • provide interpretation of the data for inspectors

  • minimise the focus on small groups that distract the conversation away from meeting the needs of all pupils

The IDSR continues to contain areas of interest sentences to highlight important data trends and differences from national data.

Where applicable, the Ofsted IDSR contains:

  • Areas of interest

  • Subject attainment and progress at key stage 4 and 5 based on 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2017 data

  • Progress at key stage 4 based on 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2017 data

  • Attainment at key stage 4 based on 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2017 data

  • English & mathematics re-sits based on 2019 data

  • Reading attainment and progress at key stage 2 based on 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2017 data

  • Writing attainment and progress at key stage 2 based on 2022, 2019, 2018 and

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