The Isle of Sheppey Academy has been served with 'Notice to Improve' by OFSTED after an inspection in December, placing it in the inadequate or failing category. It thus joins the Marlowe Academy, as the second out of 17 old style academies to fail their inspections. One suspects this will not be the last, as two others are are over half empty in Year Seven reflecting parental lack of confidence in them: New Line Learning in Maidstone (occupying its new £31 million premises), and Skinners Kent Academy in Tunbridge Wells (£30 million premises still to come)- how will they financially cope  with so few children on roll. 

However, the Inspection Report does indicate that the school may be turning a corner, .....