Ofsted: Out of special measures
Last updated 11:13, Sunday, 06 July 2008
Morton School has come out of special measures.
The judgement of the latest Ofsted inspection was greeted with tears in the staff room.
In the last 10 years the school has survived several changes of headteacher, suffered debts in excess of £750,000 and been in special measures twice.
The Wigton Road school was only one of two in England to have gone into special measures twice.
This year it celebrates its 40th anniversary and is poised to close to be replaced by an academy.
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