An enquiry of 41 schools found two-thirds of the most advanced students going into lesser learning did not achieve top GCSE outcomes, which Wilshaw called "an topic of nationwide concern".
But teachers said he was pandering to Michael Gove, the education secretary, and supplying misleading, unhelpful and "outrageous" deductions.
"These conclusions are simply not factual and do not stack up with Ofsted's own deductions that more than two-thirds of schools in this country are good or outstanding," said Chris Keates, general receptionist of the Nasuwt educators amalgamation.
She supplemented that the data utilised came from only 41 secondary schools out of a total of 4,500. "Instead of a sensible argument being opened up by a little study, we are seeing it utilised to condemn the entire of the state school learning scheme which is rather candidly outrageous.
"We are not saying that there is not room for enhancement, but teachers are employed exceedingly hard to help children of every ability and have very high aspirations," she said. "It is not anything short of scandalous that even as young persons are going into school this week to take written tests they have been notified they are worthless and now they are being notified that their educators have failed them."
Keates interrogated Wilshaw's impartiality. "The genuine article here is that the British public can no longer have any self-assurance in Ofsted, which has been imbibed into evolving a hand-covering puppet of the receptionist of state for learning. These reports are being issued in line with a political ideology, to give some sort of legitimacy to a flawed learning policy."
Brian Lightman, general receptionist of the Association of School and school Leaders, said using the percentage of pupils who come to level five at the end of primary school – the peak level – was not a good sign of achievement at GCSE or after because prime schools often coached students to achieve a grade five.
"The concept that the school scheme is failing because these [children coming to] grade fives are not getting top exam degrees is a misleading use of data," he said. "It is so demoralising for educators to be contacted by these unchanging attacks, particularly when they are based on such flimsy evidence."
Christine Blower, general secretary of the nationwide amalgamation of educators, the biggest educators' amalgamation, said the clues given to support the assertions was incorrect. "KS2 tests outcomes [tests sat at the end of prime school] were not conceived as a predictor for GCSEs and numerous secondary schools re-test pupils in the first year of lesser school to take into account cognitive skills," she said.
"Nick Gibb, the previous schools minister, asserted earlier this week that the overtake rate for GCSEs A–A* had gone up from 8% to 20% and that this was unsustainable. Neither the government neither Ofsted can have it both ways. Either schools are advancing written test outcomes for all pupils or they are not and the numbers clearly display that they are doing so for students, including the most academically bright."
Blower said the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance, which was granted to deprived students to boost them to stay at school, and the gigantic boost in university tuition charges had resulted in the erosion of aspirations.
"This is an topic that desperately desires to be addressed," she said. "Cuts to school vocations services and a lack of specialist vocations teachers should absolutely be looked at to double-check that students are granted the best likely information about alternatives that are open to them and the requirements required."
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