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An independent school that has recently seen two of its board members resign has been rated inadequate by Ofsted, the BBC reports.
The latest report for Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) said the achievement of pupils was ‘significantly below average’.
It also said senior leaders had not received adequate support from the academy co-sponsors Aldridge Foundation and Dorset County Council.
The school has pledged to ‘improve outcomes as soon as possible’.
The inspection in November also found too many teachers had failed to set work that matched pupils’ needs and governors had ‘failed to challenge leaders over the achievement of pupils’.
Inspectors also said pupils’ absences and exclusions were ‘too high’ and students with special educational needs and disabilities had not received the ‘necessary support’.
Laurie Schneider, who has three children at the school which opened in 2012, described the report as “heartbreaking”.
She added her children had “gone from children who were enthused with learning to children that don’t want to go and come home saying they haven’t learnt anything”.