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Ysgol Bro Hyddgen
All-through · Ages 4–19 · Middle school (ages 4-19)
Machynlleth, Powys SY20 8DR · brohyddgen.powys.sch.uk · 01654 704200
On the mapSearch near SY20 8DR
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected January 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 441
- Local authority
- Powys
- Language
- Welsh medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 8.2%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 7.6%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 3.4%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 388.3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 388.3 | 354.3 | 377.4 | ||
| 43.5 | 38.6 | 42.0 | ||
| 38.8 | 36.0 | 36.9 | ||
| 42.6 | 35.8 | 37.5 | ||
| 43.0 | 29.0 | 31.4 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in January 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · January 2025
- Address the safeguarding issues identified during the inspection
- Improve attendance
- Improve the quality of teaching
- Strengthen strategic leadership and provision for the progressive development of pupils' literacy, numeracy and digital skills
- Establish robust and consistent line management arrangements to ensure that leaders hold staff to account for their work and give full consideration to pupils'… Full report
- Strengthen self-evaluation and improvement planning processes by giving clear attention to the impact of provision on pupils' outcomes, along with the progress… Full report
All reports
- Jun 2026Monitoring visit
- Jan 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Jan 2025Summary for parents and carers
- Dec 2018Outcome of Estyn review
Feb 2017Inspection report5 recommendations
- Raise standards in key stage 4, particularly in the indicators that include English and mathematics
- Ensure that the principles of the Foundation Phase are implemented robustly
- Ensure consistency in the quality of teaching by sharing the best practice that was seen at the school
- Ensure that the quality of self-evaluation reports is consistent and leads to improvement
- Eliminate the deficit in the budget