Hawthorn High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Hawthorn High School is an English-medium, 11 to 18 mixed comprehensive school in Rhondda Cynon Taff. The school is located in the south of Pontypridd.

There are 696 pupils on roll, compared with 856 pupils at the time of the last inspection in March 2014. There are 98 pupils in the sixth form. Around 23% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.

This is above the national average of 16.4% for secondary schools in Wales. Around 35% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales.

Around 1.8% of pupils have a statement of special educational needs compared with 2.2% for Wales as a whole.

Around 27% of pupils have a special educational need. This is higher than the national average of 22.9%.
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Most pupils are from a white British background. Fewer than 3% of pupils are fluent in Welsh. Very few pupils speak English as an additional language.

The school has a special resource base for speech and language run by the local authority. The acting headteacher has been in post since May 2019 but joined the leadership team as deputy headteacher in September 2017. The senior management team also includes an acting deputy headteacher and three assistant headteachers.

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