St Illtyds R.C. High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

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Illtyd's Catholic High School is an English-medium 11-16 school in the east of Cardiff. There are currently 872 pupils on roll compared with 849 at the time of the last inspection in 2012. The school receives pupils from local Catholic primary schools and from other primary schools across the east of the city.

Around 28.0% of the pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is well above the national average of 16.4%.

Over 67% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales. The school welcomes pupils of all faiths and those with no faith background. The school population is ethnically diverse.

No pupils speak Welsh at home, and a few pupils speak English as an additional language. The scho...ol receives pupils from the full ability range. The percentage of pupils with special educational needs is around 33%, well above the national average of 22.

9%. The percentage of pupils who have a statement of special educational need is similar to the national average. The current headteacher took up post April 2018.

The senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, two senior assistant headteachers, three assistant headteachers, and business manager. Estyn does not inspect religious education or the religious content of collective worship when it is a school with a religious character. Instead, the governing body is required by law to arrange for religious education and collective worship to be inspected separately.