Lyndon School in Solihull is rated strong standard in all six areas of its new Ofsted report card. Disadvantaged pupils beat the national average by 14 points.
Lyndon School has been rated “strong standard” in all six areas of its first Ofsted report card. Strong standard is the second-highest of Ofsted’s five grades.
Inspectors visited the 11 to 16 school on Daylesford Road on 15 and 16 September. The report was published on 9 October. (Ofsted report, Lyndon School)
The school met the safeguarding standards, and was graded strong standard for:
- achievement
- attendance and behaviour
- curriculum and teaching
- inclusion
- leadership and governance
- personal development and wellbeing
It is a long way from 2018, when Ofsted judged the school as requiring improvement. It was rated Good in March 2022. (Ofsted, Lyndon School reports)
What the inspectors found
Inspectors called the school “ambitious and highly inclusive”. Pupils, they wrote, “thrive” because “they feel warmly welcomed and known as individuals”.
They singled out inclusion as “a significant strength” that “threads through all aspects of the school”. Barriers to learning are picked up as soon as pupils start, and staff get “precise information” on how to help.
On behaviour, the report says pupils show “very high levels of respect” for each other and for staff. “Behaviour such as bullying or discrimination is very rare.”
Staff told inspectors they were “overwhelmingly proud to work at the school”.
Ofsted’s one next step was for leaders to sustain the improvements, including on attendance and the curriculum, “to secure a transformational impact on pupils in their care”.
The results behind the grade
The report’s own data panel shows why achievement scored so well. The gap is widest for disadvantaged pupils, those eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years.
| 2024/25 GCSE, grade 5+ in English and maths | Lyndon | England |
|---|---|---|
| All pupils | 48.3% | 45.4% |
| Disadvantaged pupils | 39.4% | 25.8% |
Disadvantaged pupils at Lyndon also averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44.0, against 34.9 for disadvantaged pupils nationally. Their Progress 8 score in 2023/24 was 0.32, against a national figure of -0.57 for the same group. (Ofsted report, facts and figures)
Attendance is better than average too. Overall absence was 7.1% in 2024/25, against 8.4% nationally. About a third of pupils (32.88%) have been eligible for free school meals, slightly above the national average of 30.4%. The school had 1,168 pupils when inspectors visited.
What the school said
Syreeta Kapswara, head of school, said the report was “a reflection of our young people and the effort they put in every single day”.
“What pleases me most is that inspectors saw how every learner here, whatever their background or the barriers they face, gets the same high expectations and the same chances to succeed,” she said. (Lyndon School, 9 October 2026)
Vince Green, chief executive of Summit Learning Trust, which runs the school, said the progress made by disadvantaged pupils was “outstanding by any measure”.
How the new grades work
Ofsted stopped giving single-word overall grades such as Good or Outstanding. Schools inspected under the new framework get a grade in each area on a five-point scale:
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Ofsted describes strong standard as a school where “leaders are working above the standard expected of them”. (Ofsted report, grades explained)
What it means for you
- Choosing a secondary school for September 2027? Solihull’s closing date for applications is 31 October 2026. You can name up to six schools, and offers are made on Monday 1 March 2027. (Solihull Council, starting secondary school) Term dates for the borough’s secondaries are on our Solihull school term dates page.
- Read the full report. The eight-page report card, including the data panel, is free on Ofsted’s website.
- Comparing schools? Reports from before the new framework still carry the old single-word grade, so a strong standard school and a Good school are not graded on the same scale.
Sources: Ofsted inspection report, Lyndon School, September 2026; Ofsted provider page, URN 142075; Lyndon School announcement, 9 October 2026.
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