Ysgol Cwm Brombil
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

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PUPILS
1409
AGES
3 - 16
GENDER
Not Available
TYPE
Middle (ages 3-16)
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This pupil heat map shows where pupils currently attending the school live.
The concentration of pupils shows likelihood of admission based on distance criteria

Source: All attending pupils Pupil Level Annual School Census
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This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the Pupil Level Annual School Census collected by the Welsh Government. The data tells us where pupils lived at the time of the last Pupil Census.

Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.

For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.

This information is provided as a guide only. The areas from which pupils are admitted to a school can change from year to year to reflect the number of siblings and pupils admitted under high priority admissions criteria.

3 steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school:

  1. Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps. They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This visualisation is based on all attending pupils present at the time of the annual School Census.
  2. Use the link to the Local Authority Contact (above) to find catchment area information based on a single admission year. This is very important if you are considering applying to a school.
  3. On each school page, use the link to visit the school website and find information on individual school admissions criteria. Geographical criteria are only applied after pupils have been admitted on higher priority criteria such as Looked After Children, SEN, siblings, etc.

How Does The School Perform?

Estyn
NATIONAL AVG. 2.17
Estyn Report
(01/10/2022)
Full Report - All Reports
382.7
GCSE average points
score (capped 9)
NATIONAL AVERAGE 352.1



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Margam
Port Talbot
SA13 2AN
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School Description

Leaders and staff at Ysgol Cwm Brombil have successfully created a caring, inclusive community that ensures that nearly all pupils feel safe in schools and are supported to develop their mental and physical health. Leaders and governors have effectively managed the change to the new school and established a clear vision based on increasing aspiration, creating a sense of belonging and developing pupils’ character. A particular strength is leaders’ focus on creating strong values, based on a belief in inclusivity and the need to address inequity. Staff work in close partnership with families and communities and understand the specific social and economic challenges faced by their community. Staff and pupils are proud to be part of the school community and value the support that leaders provide. In lessons, many pupils make suitable progress in their learning and build appropriately on their prior knowledge and skills. In a few instances, pupils make strong progress and are supported well by teachers through engaging and challenging activities. However, because of shortcomings in teaching, a minority of pupils across the school make limited progress in their learning. In these lessons, teachers provide too much support and do not have high enough expectations of what pupils can achieve. In addition, unstructured or independent activities in the primary phase are not planned sufficiently. As a result, pupils in this phase do not always make sufficient progress when engaging with these tasks. The majority of teachers use questioning suitably to check pupils’ understanding. Only a few use their feedback to deepen and probe pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills. in addition, teachers do not always use their assessment information well enough to inform their planning and pupils’ next steps in learning. The school provides a broad and balanced curriculum for pupils with suitable opportunities for them to develop an understanding of their local community, Wales and the wider world. This curriculum offer is narrowed in Year 9 when pupils study fewer subjects. Whilst teachers are beginning to provide a few suitable opportunities for pupils to develop their literacy and numeracy and digital skills, the provision for the progressive development of pupils’ skills at an early stage of development. Leaders in Ysgol Cwm Brombil have been successful in promoting a positive safeguarding culture. Provision to support vulnerable pupils is strong. The attendance of pupils that are entitled to free school meals has improved notably since last year. The school provides a wide range of support for pupils with additional learning needs (ALN) and these pupils make sound progress from their starting points. Whilst leaders have secured particularly high levels of well-being and care, they have not had enough impact on improving some important aspects of the school’s work, such as the quality of teaching and the impact of leadership at all levels. Although they gather a wide range of suitable evidence to support their evaluations, they do not focus closely enough on the impact that teaching has on pupils’ learning. As a result, leaders are too generous in their evaluation of teaching and learning and have not identified a few important weaknesses in middle and senior leadership.

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