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Monitoring educational performance

Understand the fundamentals of effective monitoring to ensure your board is holding leaders to account.

Guidance
24/06/2026
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Governing boards are responsible for holding leaders to account for the educational performance of pupils in their school or trust.

Governors and trustees should ensure that their schools are achieving and able to maintain good outcomes for all pupils, through the provision of high quality and inclusive education and effective monitoring and quality assurance processes.

This guidance explains how boards provide strategic oversight over educational performance. It covers:

  • how performance is assessed and measured
  • the data viewed and evaluated by the board
  • driving school/trust improvement

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