A SLOUGH academy claims to have been proven right in its dispute with the watchdog, Ofsted, after achieving a ‘good’ rating just months after it was plunged into special measures.

Langley Hall Primary Academy was revealed as ‘inadequate’ in July after it failed in a High Court bid to stop an Ofsted report being published. The report related to an inspection in May and cited safeguarding issues and a high number of complaints to Ofsted about the school.

But it was inspected again in November and has now been found to be ‘good’ in all areas, meaning the school had risen by two grades since the May inspection.

Despite the positive result, the school are not convinced by the outcome and claims Ofsted got the original call wrong.

In a letter to parents on Tuesday, executive head teacher Sally Eaton said: “We told you that we found the original report to be flawed and biased and that the lead inspector did not follow her own organisation’s Code of Practice when conducting the inspection.”

“In total there have been ten school weeks between the publication of the first report and November. This is too short a period of time for us to make that amount of progress and clearly indicates that the original judgements were not accurate.”

The school says an independent expert was appointed by the High Court to review the May report.

His report has allegedly rubbished the original Ofsted report from May without the need to visit the academy, the school claims. The school is awaiting a response from Ofsted and is pursuing a legal challenge to strike the May report from public record.

Chair of Governors, Richard Carleton, said: “The school has suffered losses. Damages are being considered but this is not normally a remedy for a judicial review. We cannot get an apology, but the decision is wrong and should be set aside and stricken from the school’s record. That would restore the school’s reputation somewhat.”

A spokesman for Ofsted said: “The school is pursuing legal action to have its May inspection judgement overturned. As a result, it would be inappropriate for Ofsted to comment while legal proceedings are still ongoing.”