Lliswerry High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Lliswerry High School is an English-medium 11 to 18 mixed comprehensive school in Newport. Currently, there are 830 pupils on roll, including 111 in the sixth form.

Around 30% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is well above the national average of 16.4%. Around half live in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales.

The proportion of pupils that have a special educational need is around 30%, which is above the national average of 22.9%. Around 2.

4% of pupils have statements of special educational needs. This figure is similar to the average of 2.2% for Wales as a whole.

The school was last inspected in April 2013. The school has pupils from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. Nearly 40% are ...not from a White British background, and around a third of pupils speak English as an additional language.

Only a very few pupils are fluent in Welsh. The headteacher has been in post since 2017. The senior leadership team is made up of a deputy headteacher, two assistant headteachers and two associate assistant headteachers.