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Abersychan Comprehensive
Secondary · Ages 11–16 · Secondary school
INCLINE ROAD, ABERSYCHAN, Pontypool, Torfaen NP4 7DF · 01495 773068
Overview
- Estyn
- Significant Improvement
- Follow-up category · last inspected July 2025
- Pupils
- 739
- Local authority
- Torfaen
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 28.9%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 15.2%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 1.4%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 3.9%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 315.5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 315.5 | 354.3 | 354.1 | ||
| 31.6 | 38.6 | 37.5 | ||
| 27.7 | 36.0 | 34.2 | ||
| 30.1 | 35.8 | 34.5 | ||
| 34.7 | 29.0 | 27.8 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: significant improvement. Its last full inspection was in July 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Significant ImprovementEstyn page
Recommendations · July 2025
- Address the safeguarding issue identified during the inspection
- Strengthen the impact of leadership, in particular by ensuring that processes for self-evaluation and improvement planning are consistently rigorous and robust
- Improve the effectiveness of teaching so that pupils make consistently strong progress
- Improve attendance, in particular that of pupils eligible for free school meals
- Strengthen the provision for the progressive development of pupils' skills across the curriculum
All reports
- Jul 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Jul 2025Summary for parents and carers
- Mar 2018Monitoring visit
- Oct 2016Inspection report