Ruth Perry Cause of Death

Ruth Perry was a headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading who took her own life following an unreleased report which speculated that her school had a poor performance rating when authorities investigated it on November 15 and 16 last year.

Ruth Perry committed suicide while awaiting an Ofsted evaluation that gave her school the worst possible grade, according to her family. After learning that her school, Caversham Primary School in Reading, had been downgraded from Excellent to Inadequate, Ruth Perry, 53, committed herself in January.

The “worst day of her life,” according to her sister Julia Waters, was the day after inspectors visited the school on November 15 and 16 of last year.

Ruth Perry Cause of Death

Ms. Perry took her own life in January, weeks after an Ofsted inspection. The Ofsted report, published after her death, downgraded her school’s rating from Outstanding to Inadequate – going from the top to the bottom of the scale.