School Profile

Profile

School Profile is a new site for the DfES that captures and presents key information about UK schools in an accessible and easy to use format.

The Challenge

The 2005 Education Act introduced the School Profile, a short focused document produced by school governors, for parents, that replaces the annual governors' report.

All maintained schools, except nursery schools, need to produce a profile annually to communicate with its parents about the school's progress, priorities and performance. It is a short document, which contains:

• statistics, to be provided and updated by the DfES on an annual basis
• a summary of the latest Ofsted report, to be provided by DfES and updated at least every three years
• narrative sections to be written by the school, updated at least annually.

What we did

School Profile has been designed to reduce bureaucracy and to provide useful, relevant information about a school's performance and wider achievements. Primarily, it will offer parents and the public a broader and more rounded view of a school and a deeper understanding of performance within the classroom and beyond. All of this is has been made available online.

Shakespeare Junior School in Hampshire were the first school to register their details on the site, but an estimated total of 25,000 UK schools will now use the system to register their reports.