{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/18",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005",
  "path": "section/44A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44A",
  "heading": "Schools with sixth forms",
  "text": "(1) Sections 44B to 44D apply to a maintained school in Wales which—\n(a) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age, and\n(b) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age.\n(2) For the purposes of those sections a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form if—\n(a) the school is failing to give its pupils over compulsory school age an acceptable standard of education, or\n(b) in relation to its provision for pupils over compulsory school age, the school is performing significantly less well than it might in all the circumstances reasonably be expected to perform.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 44A-44F and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), ss. 77, 100(4); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/18/section/44A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:45.290138+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}