Based on previous inspections, social services officials said they decided last year not to approve the movement of any more clients into the complex.

Those judged to be good at the previous inspection, may have up to six years between inspections.

At the previous inspection in October 2010 the 963-pupil school was deemed satisfactory.

Standards have fallen since the previous inspection and many students are making inadequate progress as they move up through the school.

The previous inspection in 2011 had rated the school Satisfactory.

There has been a considerable improvement on the results achieved at the time of the previous inspection.

All of her previous inspections will be reviewed, he said.

He estimated that a previous visual inspection had probably cost the owners "$2,500, $3,500 at most."

This was a drop from the previous inspection in June 2008, when the school received a rating of "good".

In previous inspections, the commission had warned the hospital of this problem, the administrators said.