PUPILS and staff are celebrating after receiving praise from Ofsted.

The team at Redbridge Community School in Southampton were told they are ‘good’ across the board.

It comes just two years after inspectors told them the school ‘requires improvement’ in January 2016.

But head teacher Jason Ashley was told the school was ‘outstanding’ when he first joined in 2013.

Now he said he is “delighted” with the current rating.

He says that it is partly down to the wide ranging curriculum offered at the school.

Mr Ashleyu said: “We offer 27 different subjects and they are the ones we know children at the school want.

“We base the curriculum on the needs of our children.”

He added: “We are delighted to have been awarded a ‘good’ and the report reads so much better.

“It reads like an outstanding report in my opinion.”

Inspectors said teachers are “highly ambitious” for the school and “senior leaders base all their actions on an admirable set of values”.

They also praised pupils and said their conduct is “remarkable”.

Inspectors also said that “disadvantaged pupils sometimes do even better than their classmates and are catching up with other pupils nationally” .

The report added that while the school’s “contribution to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development is one

of its many strengths.”

Inspectors also said that “leaders’ relentless efforts to improve attendance and reduce absence mean that fewer pupils miss school.”

But in order to improve inspectors said that management should make sure “excellence is shared across all staff” and that results in science need to improve.

As reported the school came ninth in recent league tables with 30 per cent of its 181 key stage four pupils getting grade five or above in English and maths GCSE.

The secondary school, in Cuckmere Lane, is listed as having more than 2,000 pupils.