GCSE 'floor standard' broken at academies, what next?

A number of Norfolk schools, including existing academies, have fallen below the government minimum 40% of pupils achieving five or more A-C grades in their GCSEs (floor standard).

According to a story in EDP24:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/what_next_for_schools_that_missed_key_government_gcse_target_1_2352472

 "The Department for Education yesterday said it could not yet work out whether the schools were below the floor, as it needed final school-level data to calculate expected progress measures for 2013.
"For schools that are below the floor, it said it would consider the effectiveness of any academy sponsor, taking into account how long they had had to turn around a school.
"Ofsted will also consider the floor when deciding when to inspect a school, but is expected to look at the trend in performance over a number of years, and not necessarily inspect a school just before it dropped below the floor."

The article also said: "The government is aggressively pushing academy conversion in its bid to improve standards, but that is not an option for the Open Academy or City Academy, Norfolk’s two longest-standing academies. Cliff Park High is already due to become an academy next January. "Neither are new Ofsted inspections likely at Open Academy, which is still awaiting the outcome of an inspection this summer, or Cliff Park, which has had three monitoring inspections since it was declared “inadequate” last year.  However, City Academy has not been inspected since it was judged “good” in 2009.

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/22/gcse-results-2013-record-fall-c-grades-higher