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Abertillery Learning Community
All-through · Ages 3–16 · Middle school (ages 3-16)
Alma Street, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent NP13 1HN · abertilleryschool.net · 01495 369530
On the mapSearch near NP13 1HN
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected May 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 1,608
- Local authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 25.8%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 5.2%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 3.2%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 11.8%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 342.6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 342.6 | 354.3 | 355.7 | ||
| 33.0 | 38.6 | 37.1 | ||
| 34.5 | 36.0 | 34.5 | ||
| 31.2 | 35.8 | 35.3 | ||
| 7.6 | 29.0 | 20.0 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in May 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · May 2025
- Improve the quality of teaching so that pupils of all abilities make suitable progress, particularly in the secondary phase
- Provide meaningful challenging opportunities for pupils to develop their literacy and numeracy skills
- Ensure that leaders identify clear and specific actions when planning for improvement, particularly in relation to improving teaching
- Ensure that the school meets the statutory requirement for pupils to study Welsh up to the age of 16
All reports
- Jul 2026Monitoring visit
- May 2025Inspection reportLast full
- May 2025Summary for parents and carers
- Feb 2022Monitoring visit
Feb 2018Inspection report6 recommendations
- Improve standards, in particular outcomes at the end of key stage 4
- Improve standards of behaviour in the secondary phase
- Improve the quality of teaching
- Improve planning for progression of skills, including the Welsh language, and the breadth of the secondary phase curriculum
- Improve the quality and impact of leadership at all levels, including in self- evaluation and planning for improvement
- Provide robust financial management to address the deficit budget