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Fitzalan High School
Secondary · Ages 11–19 · Secondary school
Leckwith Road, Canton, Cardiff CF11 8XB · fitzalan.cardiff.sch.uk · 029 2023 2850
On the mapSearch near CF11 8XB
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected January 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 1,833
- Local authority
- Cardiff
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 33.3%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 6.3%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 35.5%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 83.7%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Results
Capped 9 points score, 2024/25: 391.6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 391.6 | 354.3 | 343.6 | ||
| 41.1 | 38.6 | 35.4 | ||
| 37.0 | 36.0 | 32.9 | ||
| 36.9 | 35.8 | 30.8 | ||
| 37.3 | 29.0 | 21.6 |
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in January 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · January 2025
- Strengthen provision for the development of pupils' digital skills across the curriculum
All reports
- Jan 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Jan 2025Summary for parents and carers
Feb 2017Inspection report2 recommendations
- Improve standards in a very few subjects so that they match the excellent overall outcomes achieved by pupils
- Strengthen a few aspects of self-evaluation and improvement planning in order to increase the proportion of excellent teaching