Ofsted has warned that "good" is now the minimum acceptable category of inspection.
Revised inspection arrangements come into effect this month which scrap the "satisfactory" category and replace it with the new "requires improvement" grade.
However, Ofsted has confirmed that those schools judged satisfactory at the end of last month will be given a "clean slate" before being inspected by the end of the 2013/14 academic year.
Schools already judged “inadequate" and given a notice to improve will immediately be treated as schools that have “serious weaknesses".
Elsewhere, schools will now need to demonstrate “outstanding" teaching in order to be judged as outstanding overall. Also, schools will now be notified of an inspection visit by telephone on the afternoon of the working day before the inspection starts.
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