Ofsted rates Astrea’s St Ivo Academy good in all aspects –despite low and sliding parental approval ratings

The Astrea Ascent behaviour management policy.

A high-profile academy has been rated good in all aspects by Ofsted - despite a slide in parental ratings under its controversial behaviour and teaching regimes and nearly half of families who responded to a survey stating that their children are not happy at the institution.

St Ivo, an academy controlled by the Astrea trust in the Cambridgeshire town of St Ives, published its new inspection report on its website this morning, with the interim principal Tony Meneaugh and Rowena Hackwood, Astrea’s chief executive, emailing parents with the “fantastic news”.

The development comes only four days after another of Astrea’s secondaries in the county, Longands, published its own “good” report.

St Ivo was rated good in quality of education; behaviour and attitudes; personal development; leadership and management; and the sixth form provision, with the trust celebrating an improvement from the previous overall grade of “requires improvement,” which had been based on an inspection in November 2021.