Archbishop Mcgrath Catholic School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Archbishop McGrath Catholic High School is an 11-19 mixed voluntary aided comprehensive school in Bridgend County Borough. There are 886 pupils on roll of whom 152 are in the sixth form.

This is higher than at the time of the last inspection in 2013. The school provides a Catholic education for pupils across the Bridgend County Borough, including Porthcawl, Maesteg and the Ogmore Valley. A small number of pupils also attend the school from the Vale of Glamorgan.

Those who attend the school choose to do so because of the Catholic nature and character of the school. Around 14% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is lower than the national average of 16.4% and around 23% live in the 20% most deprived areas of ...Wales.

Slightly more than 11% have a special educational need and less than 1% have a statement for that need. Both figures are lower than the national averages. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language and very few do to an equivalent standard.

However, nearly 8% of pupils do not have English or Welsh as their first language. The headteacher was appointed in 2015. The rest of the senior leadership team comprises of a deputy headteacher, four assistant headteachers and a business manager.