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Castell Alun High School
Secondary · Ages 11–19 · Secondary school
Fagl Lane, Hope, Flintshire LL12 9PY · castellalun.com · 01978 760238
On the mapSearch near LL12 9PY
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected May 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 1,283
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 12%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 5.3%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 1.1%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 6.7%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 383.3 (Wales: 354.3).
Welsh Government’s interim Key Stage 4 measures for Year 11 (points scores), from My Local School, and never set beside England’s.
Capped 9
| 2024/25 · points | Trend | School | Wales | Similar schools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 383.3 | 354.3 | 383.7 | ||
| 42.2 | 38.6 | 42.6 | ||
| 41.3 | 36.0 | 40.9 | ||
| 41.6 | 35.8 | 40.3 | ||
| 42.4 | 29.0 | 41.2 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in May 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · May 2025
- Improve the consistency of teaching by sharing the best practice that exists within the school
- Strengthen the consistency and coordination of how pupils' skills are progressively developed across subjects
All reports
- May 2025Inspection reportLast full
- May 2025Summary for parents and carers
Sept 2017Inspection report2 recommendations
- Ensure that self-evaluation processes are consistently robust and rigorous
- Further improve the planning for the development of pupils' literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology skills, especially their writing
- Dec 2013Inspection report