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Bishop Vaughan School
Secondary · Ages 11–19 · Secondary school
Mynydd Garnlwyd Road, Morriston, Swansea SA6 7QG · bishopvaughan.swansea.sch.uk · 01792 772006
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected March 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 1,236
- Local authority
- Swansea
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Voluntary aided
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 22.7%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 9%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 33.8%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 52%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 367.5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 367.5 | 354.3 | 354.1 | ||
| 40.4 | 38.6 | 37.5 | ||
| 37.8 | 36.0 | 34.2 | ||
| 36.9 | 35.8 | 34.5 | ||
| 0.0 | 29.0 | 27.8 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in March 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · March 2025
- Improve the attendance of pupils eligible for free school meals
- Improve teaching in the very few subject areas where important shortcomings were identified
- Increase the range of opportunities that pupils have to practise their Welsh
All reports
- Mar 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Mar 2025Summary for parents and carers
Jan 2018Inspection report3 recommendations
- Improve the standard of pupils' numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT) skills across the curriculum, and their use of Welsh
- Strengthen the rigour of self-evaluation and the precision of improvement planning
- Provide robust financial management to address the deficit budget
- Mar 2012Inspection report