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Ferndale Community School
Secondary · Ages 11–16 · Secondary school
Ferndale CF43 4AR · 01443 755337
On the mapSearch near CF43 4AR
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected December 2024
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 636
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 32.3%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 8.8%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 1.8%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 6.9%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 371.4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 371.4 | 354.3 | 332.9 | ||
| 34.4 | 38.6 | 35.0 | ||
| 34.1 | 36.0 | 31.8 | ||
| 29.6 | 35.8 | 31.0 | ||
| 41.5 | 29.0 | 28.2 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in December 2024. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · December 2024
- Improve attendance
- Strengthen the strategic coordination for the progressive development of pupils' skills across the curriculum
- Refine self-evaluation and improvement planning processes so that they have a consistently sharp focus on the impact of provision on pupils' learning and well-… Full report
All reports
- Dec 2024Inspection reportLast full
- Dec 2024Summary for parents and carers
Oct 2017Inspection report3 recommendations
- Ensure that self-evaluation arrangements across the school are consistently robust and rigorous
- Ensure that all middle leaders are consistently effective in their role
- Improve the consistency and effectiveness of cross-curricular provision to develop pupils' literacy, numeracy,ICT and Welsh language skills
- Apr 2012Monitoring visit
- Nov 2010Inspection report