A second monitoring visit will take place at Derby’s failing faith school over the next two days.
Inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education will be at Al-Madinah School to check if there have been any improvements since it was severely criticised and placed in special measures last October.
A subsequent monitoring visit in late November showed little or no progress and in some instances the school had slipped back even further.
Since the original inspection, Schools Minister Lord Nash has accepted the resignation of the original founding members of the Muslim free school and closed the secondary section of the school in Nelson Street, from this summer.
He has also asked Barry Day, chief executive of education charity Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust, to oversee the school and to be chairman of a newly-created trust board.
Mr Day has previously said the hoped that this monitoring visit would show improvements following the implementation of a new school improvement plan.