The Discovery New School in Crawley,West Sussex, is the first state-funded primary to adopt a whole-school Montessori approach and was one of the first free schools to open.
It was rated inadequate in three out of four categories: pupil achievement, quality of teaching and leadership and management. The behaviour and safety of pupils requires improvement.
The school is a mixed primary school taking children from the age of four to 11 and opened in September 2011 as one of the first free schools in the country and the first Montessori free school.
However, the chairman of the Montessori School’s Association Martin Bradley said that the association tried to 'reach out' to the school to offer support on several occasions, but they did not respond.
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