Pencoed Comprehensive School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Pencoed Comprehensive School is an 11-18 mixed, community school maintained by Bridgend local authority. There are currently 889 pupils on roll with 129 students in the sixth form. This is fewer than at the time of the last inspection in June 2010 when there were 1,054 pupils, including 178 in the sixth form.

Since 2010, the school has hosted a resource base which supports key stage 3 and key stage 4 pupils with moderate learning difficulties. The school is located in the small town of Pencoed, four miles east of Bridgend. Three point five per cent of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales.

Around 15% are eligible for free school meals, which is below the national average of 17.4% for secondary schools in Wale...s. Around 26% of pupils have a special educational need.

This is just above the national average of 25.4%. Just over 2% of pupils have a statement of special educational needs, which is close to the national average of 2.

5%. Nearly all pupils come from a white British background. A very few pupils speak Welsh fluently.

The headteacher has been in post since January 2010. The senior leadership team is made up of one deputy headteacher, two assistant headteachers, one school manager and three seconded senior leaders. The school is currently a pioneer school and is working with the Welsh Government and other schools to take forward developments relating to the curriculum.

The individual school budget per pupil for Pencoed Comprehensive in 2016-2017 is £4,535 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in Bridgend is £5,175 and the minimum is £4,055. Pencoed Comprehensive is fourth out of the nine secondary schools in Bridgend in terms of its school budget per pupil.