Llantwit Major School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Llantwit Major School is an English-medium 11-18 mixed comprehensive school, in the Vale of Glamorgan. It has 901 pupils on roll, including 170 in the sixth form.

This is considerably fewer than at the time of the last inspection when there were 1,184 including 205 in the sixth form. Pupils are drawn from the town itself and the large rural surrounding area. Less than 1% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales.

Just less than 15% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is below the Welsh average of 17.4% for secondary schools. About 1% of pupils come from Welsh-speaking homes.

Nearly all pupils are from white British backgrounds with very few from ethnic minority groups. The percentage o...f pupils with special educational needs is around 24% which is close to the national average of 25.1%.

The percentage of pupils who have a statement of special educational needs is 1%, which is below the national average of 2.5%. The current senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, who is currently working across two schools, an acting headteacher, an acting deputy headteacher and two assistant headteachers.

The individual school budget per pupil for Llantwit Major School in 2016-2017 is £4,434 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan is £4,836 and the minimum is £3,889. Llantwit Major School is fourth out of the seven secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan in terms of its school budget per pupil.

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