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Contents
  1. September 2026: Ofsted adds a similar schools comparison to the IDSR
  2. June 2026: Ofsted has updated its inspection guidance documents for 2026/27
  3. April 2026: Ofsted will inspect mobile phone policies
  4. 12 January 2026: government proposes routine Ofsted inspections of MATs
  5. Older updates: what you may have missed from 2025
  6. Stay up to date

September 2026: Ofsted adds a similar schools comparison to the IDSR

From September 2026, your inspection data summary report (IDSR) includes a new "versus similar school average" comparison, sitting alongside the existing comparison against the national average.

Instead of just comparing your school against the national picture, it compares it against a group of around 50 schools with a similar context – covering the main attainment and progress measures at Key Stage 2 for primary schools and Key Stage 4 for secondary schools.

There's nothing you need to do to access it – it's built into your IDSR automatically, and you view it the same way you already do, through Ofsted's IDSR service or DfE's Analyse School Performance (ASP) service.

Take a look at