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Gowerton Comprehensive School
Secondary · Ages 11–19 · Secondary school
Cecil Road, Gowerton, Swansea SA4 3DL · gowerton.swansea.sch.uk · 01792 873461
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected February 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 1,127
- Local authority
- Swansea
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 17.1%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 7.7%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 1.9%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 9.7%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 369.3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 369.3 | 354.3 | 365.5 | ||
| 40.6 | 38.6 | 40.6 | ||
| 38.1 | 36.0 | 37.8 | ||
| 38.2 | 35.8 | 37.9 | ||
| 39.4 | 29.0 | 26.3 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in February 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · February 2025
- Refine the roles and responsibilities of all senior leaders and ensure that they are held to account robustly
- Strengthen self-evaluation processes so that leaders have an accurate view of the school's areas for development and plan for improvement precisely
- Improve the quality of teaching to address the shortcomings identified in the report
- Improve the provision for the progressive development of pupils' literacy skills across the curriculum, in particular reading and writing
- Improve attendance
All reports
- Jul 2026Monitoring visit
- Feb 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Feb 2025Summary for parents and carers
Mar 2017Inspection report4 recommendations
- Improve the progress that all pupils make in lessons
- Improve pupils' standards in Welsh and information and communication technology across the curriculum
- Improve systems of accountability at all levels of leadership
- Ensure that self-evaluation and improvement planning focuses appropriately on the quality of teaching and the progress made by pupils in their lessons
- May 2011Inspection report