String of schools featured by Education Uncovered have high teacher turnover rates, official DfE data show

School-by-school statistics show high teacher departure rates in some institutions.

The human impact of controversial school management and takeover regimes appears to be showing through in official government data for teacher turnover in England, Education Uncovered can reveal.

Several schools which have featured extensively on this website in recent years have registered rates of teacher departures which are well above national averages, Department for Education statistics released earlier this month show.

The data include one school, handed by the government to England’s largest academy trust two years ago, which saw almost half its teachers depart last year; at another controversy-beset trust the figure was 42 per cent; and at an academy which has seen both teachers and pupils subject to highly centralised management, 38 per cent of teachers left.

This comes in the context of teacher turnover rates overall which declined slightly in the year to November 2024, the latest data demonstrate, with academies continuing to show higher levels of teacher departures than local authority schools, but with the gap closing somewhat.