Our Performance

A Star education is all about excellence. We have extensive experience of establishing, developing and continually improving outstanding schools that deliver outstanding results.

Performance

Year upon year, our founding school, TIGHS, has ranked extremely highly on a range of attainment measures in school league tables, including being one of the top schools nationally for progress made by pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and for progress made by its most able learners.

Of course, to achieve academic success, children must attend school regularly. Star pupils consistently secure the lowest absence rates in England. The DfE school attendance figures confirm that Star schools regularly top the attendance tables.

We lead a number of improvement partnerships, supporting secondary and primary schools in areas of significant deprivation. For example, Blackburn Central High School was one of two schools to be judged the most improved in the country for the progress and achievements made over the three years of Star’s involvement.

Ofsted

17 of our schools that have been inspected by Ofsted have achieved ‘outstanding’ status.

TIGHS has achieved Ofsted ‘outstanding’ four consecutive times. Our first free school – TIBHS – also achieved Ofsted ‘outstanding’ at its very first inspection.

In 2013, the Trust opened two new primary schools; The Olive School, Blackburn and The Olive School, Hackney. Building on the unparalleled successes of the other schools in the Star family, the Olive Schools have established a track record of excellence in their own right and secured Ofsted ‘outstanding’ status in 2015.

In 2017, Eden Boys’ School, Bolton, Eden Girls’ School, Coventry and Eden Girls’ School, Waltham Forest were also graded as ‘outstanding’ in all areas.

In 2018, Eden Girls’ School, Slough, Eden Boys’ School, Birmingham and Eden Boys’ School, Preston were inspected for the first time and secured Ofsted ‘outstanding’ in every aspect of their provision.

In 2019, The Olive School, Preston, The Olive School, Birmingham and The Olive School, Bolton all achieved Ofsted ‘outstanding’ status in all areas. Barkerend Primary Leadership Academy, which joined the Trust in April 2018 with a ‘requires improvement’ grading, was also judged to be ‘outstanding’ in all areas by Ofsted in its first inspection since joining Star.

In September 2022 Eden Girls’ School, Waltham Forest had its second Ofsted inspection. The school’s overall rating remained as ‘outstanding’, and the school was judged to be ‘outstanding’ in all areas of its provision. Later in October 2022, TIGHS had its fourth Ofsted inspection. The school’s overall rating remained as ‘outstanding’, and the school was once again judged to be ‘outstanding’ in all areas of its provision.

In January 2023 Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy, Birmingham East were inspected for the first time since opening in 2018 and were graded as ‘outstanding’ in every aspect of their provision. In May 2023 Eden Girls’ School, Coventry had its second Ofsted inspection. The school’s overall rating remained as ‘outstanding’. In July 2023, Eden Boys’ School, Bolton had its second Ofsted inspection, the overall judgement was once again ‘outstanding’.

In January 2024 The Olive School, Small Heath had its first Ofsted inspection and was judged to be ‘outstanding’ in all areas. In February 2024, Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy, Birmingham had its first Ofsted inspection and was judged ‘outstanding’ in all areas.

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Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy, Birmingham judged ‘outstanding’ in first Ofsted inspection

The whole school community is celebrating after the report, published by Ofsted this week, confirms that the school has achieved outstanding status in all areas with no recommendations for improvement. 

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