A BICESTER secondary school in special measures is still not making enough progress, according to the latest Ofsted report.

Inspectors revisited Bicester Community College in June, four months after it was put in special measures.

In February, the school received a damning Ofsted inspection that rated achievement, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils, and leadership and management as all inadequate.

A follow-up monitoring inspection in March, just days after an interim governing board was set up, said plans to improve the Queens Avenue school were not “fit for purpose”.

After this latest monitoring inspection on June 26 and 27, a letter by inspector Lorna Brackstone said: “Having considered all the evidence, I am of the opinion that at this time the school is not making enough progress towards the removal of special measures.”

Cooper School’s headteacher Ben Baxter took over as interim executive head in April, and the report acknowledged some improvements had been made.

But it said teaching at the school is still not up to scratch.

It said: “Too many lessons lack space and do not challenge the students in their learning.

“Teachers do not have high enough expectations of the students and poor attitudes to learning are a feature of most lessons.”

It went on to say poor behaviour was not challenged and teaching did not interest or motivate pupils who “frequently complain of being bored”.

The report also said the school’s leadership had improved, as had the behaviour of students around the school and staff morale.

It highlighted the work of assistant headteacher Tim Marston, who has made “impressive” improvements in attendance and exclusion rates.

Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet member for education Melinda Tilley, who described the initial Ofsted report as the worst she had ever seen, said: “It is clear from the inspector’s latest report that although significant further progress is needed towards the removal of special measures, Bicester Community College is now moving in the right direction.”

Mr Baxter was unavailable for comment.