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Dwr Y Felin Comprehensive School
Secondary · Ages 11–16 · Secondary school
Dwr Y Felin Road, Neath SA10 7RE · dwryfelinschool.org · 01639 635161
On the mapSearch near SA10 7RE
Overview
- Estyn
- Significant Improvement
- Follow-up category · last inspected July 2026
- Pupils
- 1,097
- Local authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 16.4%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 6.3%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 0.5%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 7.4%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 356.7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 356.7 | 354.3 | 375.9 | ||
| 39.2 | 38.6 | 41.1 | ||
| 35.3 | 36.0 | 38.2 | ||
| 33.0 | 35.8 | 39.6 | ||
| 39.7 | 29.0 | 28.5 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: significant improvement. Its last full inspection was in July 2026. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Significant ImprovementEstyn page
Recommendations · July 2026
- Improve the quality of teaching
- Strengthen the coordination, provision and delivery of opportunities for pupils to develop their literacy skills progressively
- Improve the behaviour and attitudes to learning of a minority of pupils and the approaches used by all staff to support pupils' behaviour
- Improve attendance
- Ensure that self-evaluation and improvement processes focus more precisely on improving teaching and its impact on pupils' progress and their attitudes to… Full report
All reports
- Jul 2026Inspection reportLast full
- Jul 2026Summary for parents and carers
Mar 2017Inspection report3 recommendations
- Improve standards at key stage 4, including those of the more able pupils
- Improve the quality of teaching, especially the level of challenge for the more able
- Improve teachers' written feedback to pupils and the quality of pupils' responses