Welshpool High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Welshpool High School is an English-medium 11-18 mixed comprehensive school, in Powys. It has 900 pupils on roll, including 163 in the sixth form.

This is fewer than at the time of the last inspection when there were 1,070 on roll. Pupils are drawn from an area that includes Welshpool and the surrounding villages. Slightly more than 10% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales.

Just over 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is below the Welsh average of 17.3% for secondary schools. About 3% of pupils come from Welsh-speaking homes.

Most pupils are from white British backgrounds with very few from minority ethnic groups. The percentage of pupils with special educational needs is 25%... which is very close to the national average of 25.1%.

The percentage of pupils who have a statement of special educational needs is 1%, which is below the national average of 2.4%. The senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, a deputy headteacher, three assistant headteachers and a business manager.

The individual school budget per pupil for Welshpool High School in 2016-2017 is £3,855 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in Powys is £4,604 and the minimum is £3,797. Welshpool High School is tenth out of the eleven secondary schools in Powys in terms of its school budget per pupil.