Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn is an 11 to 18 comprehensive school situated in the town of Newcastle Emlyn and maintained by Carmarthenshire local authority.

The school is categorised as 'English-medium with significant Welsh'. Around 65% of pupils complete their primary education through the medium of Welsh. Pupils come to the school from Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion.

Currently, the school has 500 learners, including 93 in the sixth form. This is notably less than at the time of the last core inspection. The current proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals is 16.

7%, which is close to the national average. The school receives pupils from the full range of ability. A very few pupils are from a minor...ity ethnic background and none receive support for English as an additional language.

Just over 20% of pupils have an additional learning need and a little less than 5% of pupils have a statement of special educational needs, which is above the national average of 2.2%. Forty-two per cent of pupils speak Welsh fluently and 16.

4% speak Welsh at home at home. Sixty-two per cent of Ysgol Emlyn's pupils are taught Welsh as a first language. At key stage 3, pupils are able to study design and technology, history, music and art through the medium of Welsh.

Apart from Welsh GCSE, no pupils follow any subjects in key stage 4 in Welsh. The headteacher has been in post since 2013. He is supported by three assistant headteachers on a full time basis and one other who works for 80% of the time.