Preparing for inspection well is harder than it looks from outside. Most leaders work from a small sample: their own last report, a few from peer schools, and the conversations they have with colleagues who have been through it recently.

ISI published 395 routine inspection reports between May 2025 and April 2026. Reading any single report tells you what happened to that school. Reading all 395 tells you what is happening across the sector.

This work turns the corpus into one usable synthesis. What gets praised. What gets penalised. The dozen recurring issues behind almost every “not all met” outcome. The recommended next steps and action points, mapped by theme. The pedagogical patterns that recur across the cycle. The framing that is most likely to attract the elusive “significant strength” accolade.

Step into your next inspection with the evidence of 395 schools behind you.