SCHEDULE 7Sixth forms requiring significant improvement
Part I Power to publish proposals
Secondary schools
1
(1)
Paragraphs 2 to 7 apply to a maintained school (within the meaning given by section 20(7) of the M1School Standards and Framework Act 1998) which—
(a)
provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age, and
(b)
provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age.
F1(2)
For the purposes of those paragraphs a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form if—
(a)
the school is failing to give its pupils over compulsory school age an acceptable standard of education, or
(b)
in relation to its provision for pupils over compulsory school age, the school is performing significantly less well than it might in all the circumstances reasonably be expected to perform.