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Welshpool High School
Secondary · Ages 11–19 · Secondary school
Salop Road, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7RE · welshpool-hs.powys.sch.uk · 01938 552014
On the mapSearch near SY21 7RE
Overview
- Estyn
- Special Measures
- Follow-up category · last inspected July 2025
- Pupils
- 816
- Local authority
- Powys
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 13.5%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 4.4%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 4%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 8.2%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 366.7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 366.7 | 354.3 | 380.7 | ||
| 39.8 | 38.6 | 41.7 | ||
| 40.9 | 36.0 | 39.8 | ||
| 39.4 | 35.8 | 40.1 | ||
| 41.6 | 29.0 | 27.6 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: special measures. Its last full inspection was in July 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Special MeasuresEstyn page
Recommendations · July 2025
- Strengthen leadership to ensure that roles and responsibilities are equitable and clear and ensure that leaders at all levels evaluate their work accurately… Full report
- Improve the quality of teaching to ensure appropriate challenge for all pupils
- Improve cross-curricular planning to develop pupils' literacy and numeracy skills progressively
- Improve attendance, in particular that of pupils eligible for free school meals
- Increase the opportunities that pupils have to use Welsh outside of Welsh lessons
All reports
- Jul 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Jul 2025Summary for parents and carers
Feb 2017Inspection report3 recommendations
- Improve teaching to match the best practice in the school
- Ensure that all middle leaders identify and address robustly important areas in need of improvement
- Provide robust financial management to address the deficit budget