A school given Ofsted's bottom ranking has been told it is making inadequate progress on turning around its situation.

An inspection team revisited Portslade Community College, in Chalky Road, Portslade, but said the impact of any improvement work could not yet be seen.

The college was given a damning Ofsted report in January 2009 when in was rated inadequate just weeks after its GCSE results showed it was the sixth worst in the country for "value added", the measure used to indicate progress made by children between starting and finishing school.

Ofsted put Portslade into its "notice to improve" category giving it two years to turn itself around or face closure. The rated it in the bottom “grade four” ranking.

The monitoring visit last term was the first of a series of checks on progress at the school.

New principal Stuart McLaughlin, who started in September, said he was confident the school would start to show progress by the time the inspectors made their next visit, expected next term.

If Portslade does not make significant progress one possibility for its future would be to transform it into an academy funded by the Government but managed by an independent trust board.