Ofsted published their inspection report on Park View Academy in Beeston last week (18 September 2025).
The inspection took place at the end of the summer term on 1-2 July 2025, when Park View were finally able to showcase their fantastic school and to show the incredible journey it has been on. Following two previous ‘requires improvement’ judgements in 2019 and 2022, it is exciting to be able to share the inspection report which shows:
Quality of Education – Good
Behaviour and attitudes – Outstanding
Personal Development – Outstanding
Leadership and management – Good
Early years provision – Outstanding
Park View is and incredibly special place and this was fully agreed by an Ofsted team that took the time to truly understand our community with an incredibly positive outcome.
The school team works tirelessly to ensure our pupils get the very best deal despite deprivation factors in the local area. Ofsted recognised that the school places pupils ‘at the heart of all the schools’ decisions’ and every child knows ‘they are deeply valued’. ‘Parents are overwhelmingly happy with the school.’
We are a multiculturally diverse school community and ‘pupils are proud of this’. It is what makes Park View such an exceptional place and this shows in how our pupils celebrate their ‘local and global heritage’. Pupils thrive on being unique but ‘are excited to celebrate in each others’ achievements’.
After what felt like the longest wait, we are finally able to celebrate what we have known – that we are ‘an inclusive, aspirational and caring school’.
We continue to work on our next steps, but for now, we are incredibly proud of what our school community has achieved.
Louise Taylor, Head of Academy, commented:
“Park View is an incredibly special place to me. Previously know as Cross Flatts Park Middle School, it was the school I spent many happy years attending as a pupil. I feel privileged to have been part of Park View’s journey of improvement from Double RI to where we are now and it has the added reward of me being able to pay back the part it has played in my own educational journey.”
You can read the full inspection report here.
This post is based on a press release issued by Park View Academy
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