Hawarden High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Hawarden High School is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive maintained by Flintshire local authority.

Currently there are 1,162 pupils on roll, which includes 198 in the sixth form. This is slightly higher than at the time of the last inspection, when there were 1,114 pupils on roll. The school mainly draws pupils from the villages of Ewloe, Hawarden, Northop Hall and Sandycroft.

Less than 10% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived parts of Wales. Nearly all pupils come from homes where English is the main language. A very few pupils speak Welsh fluently and do so at home.

The proportion of pupils who come from minority ethnic groups is around 2%. The rolling three-year average of pupils eligible for free school meals i...s 8.8%, which is notably lower than the Welsh average of 17.

1%. Current figures place the total proportion of pupils on the special educational needs register at around 11%, which is well below the national average of 25.1%.

This figure includes just under 2% who have a statement of special educational needs compared with a national average of 2.4%. The school has a specialist teaching facility on site for pupils who have been diagnosed with a specific learning disability, who are all educated in mainstream classes.

The leadership of the school comprises the acting headteacher who took up his post in September 2015. He is supported by a deputy headteacher, one assistant headteacher, a principal teacher and the school's business manager. The team is supported by four associate assistant headteachers who make up the extended leadership team.

The individual school budget per pupil for Hawarden High School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £4,056 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in Flintshire is £4,974 and the minimum is £3,907. Hawarden High School is ninth out of the 12 secondary schools in Flintshire in terms of its school budget per pupil.