In September 2010 I took over as the new headteacher at Baverstock School in Birmingham. The school serves a disadvantaged area of the city with high free school meals.
Historically the school was below floor targets in almost every category. In 2009, 27 per cent of students gained five A* to C including English and maths, fixed-term exclusions were very high, managed moves and the Sharing Panel system were used to move students on, and permanent exclusions were running at eight or nine a year.
The school had been in an Ofsted category, then became a National Challenge school and was being considered by the Department for Education and local authority to close and merge as an academy with another local school. All this has now changed.
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