Brynmawr Foundation School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Brynmawr Foundation School is an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school in Blaenau Gwent local authority. The school became grant maintained in 1992 and assumed foundation status in 1999. There are 699 pupils on roll, compared with 751 pupils at the time of the last inspection in 2013.

The school serves Brynmawr and the surrounding area. About 22% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the Wales average of 16.4% for secondary schools.

A very few pupils come from minority ethnic backgrounds and English is spoken as the first language in nearly all pupils' homes. Nearly 21% of pupils are on the school's special educational needs register, which is just under the national average of 22.9%.

Around 2% o...f pupils have a statement of special educational needs compared with 2.2% for Wales as a whole. The headteacher took up his post as temporary headteacher in September 2018.

He became the substantive headteacher in April 2019. The senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, one deputy headteacher, three assistant headteachers and one business manager. None of the current team was in post at the time of the last inspection.