A special school in Ipswich has been rated inadequate in three of four areas by Ofsted.
Stone Lodge Academy was inspected by the education watchdog over two days in January.
The school was deemed inadequate in the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes and leadership and management, while personal development was rated as requires improvement.
The visit comes, however, just five months after the school became part of the Eastern Education Group Trust, who acknowledged when starting to work with the school that it "needed significant improvements".
Nikos Savvas, CEO of the trust, said: "As a trust, we have already acted on this but, as identified in the Ofsted report, these changes are too recent to have had the broad reaching positive impact we expect to see in due course."
Ofsted found that too many pupils regularly miss school and it does not take effective action to help pupils attend school as often as they should.
Inspectors also found the safeguarding at the school to not be effective, noting that "some pupils are at risk of not being properly protected".
Mr Savvas continued: "The findings from this report have served to reinforce the urgency of work we need to do to achieve our aim for Stone Lodge Academy and the other SEND school now in our group to be providing the same exemplary standards of education and care we expect.
"There is work for us to do and we have strengthened our strategic oversight and leadership of the school, as well as its procedures and practices relating to all the areas identified by Ofsted, with a particular focus on the quality of education and safeguarding."
Eastern Education Group Trust also run Abbeygate Sixth Form College, One Sixth Form College and West Suffolk College, all of which are judged as outstanding by Ofsted.
Mr Savvos said: "Our aim is to make Stone Lodge, like our other schools, a beacon of excellence.
"We are confident that the next Ofsted inspection will see the positive impact of the changes and strong foundations we are building for the school."
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