ISI Inspection Report 2025
The Independent Schools’ Inspectorate (“ISI”) visited Moulsford in June 2025.
We received the final report from the Inspectorate on 13th October, 2025. The report finds that the overall quality of the education and pupil experience at Moulsford is as strong as it has always been.
However, because of three administrative issues identified by the inspectors, the school has failed to meet some of the standards expected by the ISI.
These issues were as follows:
- Our registration process was found to be taking 45 minutes to complete, which is more than the 30 minutes that the ISI requires. We have subsequently adjusted our processes so that registration now falls within the 30 minute window. Issues identified with inconsistent use of coding for registrations have also been corrected.
- At the inspection we were unable to provide evidence to the inspectors of a central record of notifications by the School to the Local Authority in the event that a pupil joins or leaves the school mid-term. Since this fault was identified we have put in place an appropriate reporting system that rectifies this issue.
- Our Boarder Counsellor, an independent adult that boarders can contact with any issues, was deemed by the inspectors not to be truly independent because they were also paid by the school for one hour a week to provide a drop-in confidential counselling service. This situation was rectified as soon as we were made aware of the issue.
Unfortunately, these administrative failings, which the School moved to rectify as soon as they were discovered, have had a significant effect on the overall outcome of our ISI inspection report.
The inspectors have concluded that the School has failed to meet the required standards in the following categories:
- The physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing of our pupils
- Safeguarding
As a result of these two failings, the School has also automatically been deemed to have failed in a third category of ‘Leadership and management, and governance’.
Our staff work tirelessly to ensure that the children in our care receive the highest quality education and experience, in an environment that is kind, caring, encouraging and safe. In fact, as you will see from the report, the inspectors praised our well-planned curriculum, our wide range of extra-curricular activities, and the consistently good progress our pupils make. They also confirmed our core commitment: that all children are safe within the School.
The School is undertaking a full review of administrative compliance and the ISI will reinspect us within the next twelve months. We are confident that the issues they have identified will be found to have been fully resolved.
The Full 2025 ISI inspection report can be viewed here.
ISI Inspection Report 2022
For a full copy of our 2022 Inspection Report please click here
Material Change Inspection 2022
As part of the process of opening the new Pre-Prep, the school was required by the Department of Education (DfE) to apply for a Material Change relating to the following three points:
- an increase in the number of pupils
- change of age range from 4-13 years to 3-13 years
- to include girls in the Moulsford Pre-School year (3 - 4 years)
The School submitted the Material Change application to DfE in May 2021. Due to Covid and other factors, there was a delay in carrying out the inspection, and in the meantime, we had a separate scheduled full educational and compliance inspection in March 2022, in which the school was awarded top grades. However, DfE stated that Moulsford still had to undergo the Material Change Inspection and this was eventually undertaken in September 2022. The school again achieved the best result possible, as well as having the three points listed above granted.
ISI Inspection Report 2017
For a full copy of our 2017 Inspection Report please click here
