Gowerton School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Gowerton School is an English-medium 11 to 19 mixed comprehensive school maintained by Swansea local authority. Currently there are 1053 pupils on roll which is lower than at the time of the last inspection when there were 1212. The number in the sixth form is also lower at 116 compared with 158 in 2011.

The school serves the village of Gowerton itself, Waunarlwydd and the villages of the North Gower peninsula. Around 12.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is lower than the national average of 17.

1%. Just less than 20% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales. Most pupils are white, British and 7.

8% pupils come from an ethnic minority background which is just slightly lower than ...the average for Wales. A very few pupils speak English as an additional language. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language or to an equivalent standard.

Just under a third of pupils are on the special educational needs register, 4.8% of pupils have a statement of special educational needs, this is higher than the national averages of 25.1% and 2.

4% respectively. The school hosts a specialist resource base for pupils with autism. The headteacher took up his post in September 2016.

The senior leadership team consists of one deputy headteacher, and two assistant headteachers. The individual school budget per pupil for Gowerton School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £4412 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in Swansea is £6326 and the minimum is £3942.

Gowerton School is ninth out of the 14 secondary schools in Swansea in terms of its school budget per pupil. The school is currently a 'digital pioneer school'. This means that it is working with Welsh Government and other digital pioneer schools to develop and pilot a Digital Competency Framework for Wales.