Bassaleg School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Bassaleg School is a mixed 11-19 school to the north east of Newport.

Currently, it has 1,749 pupils on roll with 405 in the sixth form. This is slightly lower than at the time of the last inspection, when there were 1,767 pupils in total including 502 in the sixth form. Pupils come mainly from six partner primary schools.

Around 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is much lower than the national average of 16.4% for secondary schools in Wales.

Around 2% live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales. One point four per cent of pupils have statements of special educational needs compared with 2.5% for Wales as a whole.

Around 8% of pupils have a special educational need, which is much lowe...r than the national average of 20.1%. Many pupils are from a White British background.

A few pupils come from an ethnic minority background. A few pupils speak English as an additional language and a very few speak Welsh fluently. The school is currently a pioneer school and is working with Welsh Government and other schools to take forward developments relating to the curriculum and professional learning.

The headteacher has been in post since September 2018. The leadership team is made up of two deputy headteachers, a director of business and three assistant headteachers. The school was last inspected in November 2014.