An independent Chasidic boys school in Stamford Hill has been told its pupils need to learn more about other faiths and different family set-ups in order to meet educational standards.

Beis Aharon was ranked as a school which “requires improvement” - the same Ofsted grade when inspected last year but higher than its inadequate rating in 2014.

Inspectors recognised efforts to improve maths and English but said these needed to go further to “secure good progress for pupils”.

While pupils had basic knowledge of Christianity and Islam, Ofsted said their knowledge of faith other than their own was “not sufficiently extensive”.

Inspectors said headteacher Menache Moishe Gotlieb had worked hard to raise awareness of groups protected by equality law.

The law includes people of same-sex orientation and who have reassigned their gender.

The school - which teaches boys from three to 13 -  had drawn up a strategy on covering equality issues, depending on children’s age.

“Although this is a clear step forward,” Ofsted commented, “pupils do not have enough understanding of the wide range of family life represented in modern Britain”.

The inspectors’ report did not explicitly refer to LGBT people.

Last year the Department for Education lifted a ban on the school admitting new pupils.