A TOWN centre primary school has nose-dived from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate' following its latest Ofsted inspection.
Shawlands Primary, on Shaw Street, has 'serious weaknesses' according to the report, which criticised the achievement of pupils and some of its teaching.
In a previous inspection in 2007 the school was given the highest rating.
However, the latest report says standards in reading, writing and maths across years one to six have fallen 'substantially' and many pupils are underachieving in years one and two.
Despite the bleak outcome, parents said they're confident Shawlands will turn itself around in the next year.
Nikita Ward, 27, who has two sons at the school, said the report was 'terrible' but is pleased to see changes have already been made.
"Since the start of the new school year they've made a lot of improvements and from what they have talked about, hopefully in the next year it will be back up to standard," she said.
Many parents echoed Ms Ward's thoughts. One grandfather, a former teacher himself, is confident it will improve quickly.
"The school has already put a lot of measures in place to make sure any problems are resolved," he said.
"It's got a lot of strengths and that's what they're going to build on."
The achievement of pupils was found to be inadequate while other key areas such as quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils, and leadership and management require improvement.
However, the report noted a number of strengths including a welcoming atmosphere and well behaved pupils.
It also said 'substantial and recent changes' to the leadership, management and governance of the school had resulted in some improvements in teaching, learning and pupils' achievements in the past two terms.
A statement from Shawlands pledged to bring about rapid improvement.
It said: "In response to a number of areas of weakness identified in a recent inspection, all staff and governors are committed to addressing these immediately in order to bring about swift and sustained improvement."
