Brynteg Comprehensive School, Bridgend

Brynteg Comprehensive School is an English-medium school in Wales. Welsh schools are inspected by Estyn rather than Ofsted, and its latest report is published on Estyn's website.

It had 1668 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

18% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 3% have additional learning needs (13% in 2020/21); 4% are learning English as an additional language; and 12% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 107 pupils (Year 13) to 317 (Year 9).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £6,124 per pupil, against £4,896 in 2021-22. It ended 2024-25 with a deficit of £593k.

Estyn's report on its February 2025 inspection summarises Brynteg Comprehensive School like this:

"Brynteg Comprehensive School provides its pupils with an inclusive, caring environment where the values of ‘respect, independence, community, kindness’ are an integral part of school life. A range of beneficial support is carefully planned to meet the social and emotional needs of pupils. For example, the ‘Dyfodol’ provision offers a safe, nurturing place for vulnerable pupils to thrive and make progress. In many cases, well-planned lessons delivered by teachers passionate about their subject help pupils to make sound progress in their knowledge, understanding and skills. In a few instances, particularly effective teaching enables pupils to make strong progress. In the few lessons where expectations are not high enough, pupils do not make as much progress as they should."

"The school is developing an ambitious, innovative Key Stage 3 curriculum. This aims to provide pupils with rich, authentic learning experiences that inspire them to be creative, independent learners. This is a long-term, ongoing project that leaders continue to adapt and develop. Valuable opportunities for pupils to practise and develop their literacy and digital skills across the curriculum support pupils’ progress well, although numeracy provision is less well developed. Despite the challenges arising from the school’s notably large site, leaders have, in general, secured a sound culture of safeguarding. However, arrangements regarding pupils leaving the site at lunchtime are not robust enough."

"Leadership has secured some important improvements to the work of the school. For example, rates of attendance, including those of pupils eligible for free school meals, improved well last year, although overall attendance remains slightly below that of similar schools. Arrangements for line management, self-evaluation and improvement planning are generally rigorous and robust. However, in a few instances, staff are not held to account with sufficient consistency and leaders do not plan for improvement precisely enough. A range of strategies to reduce the impact of poverty have a positive impact on the well-being and progress of pupils from low-income households."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Address the safeguarding issue identified in the report; (2) Improve attendance; (3) Ensure that arrangements for line management and self-evaluation are consistently robust so that all leaders are held to account fully and plan for improvement precisely.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Brynteg Comprehensive School are Archbishop McGrath Catholic High School (1.1 miles), Bryntirion Comprehensive School (1.5 miles), Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen (3.3 miles) and Pencoed Comprehensive School (3.6 miles).

The nearest railway station is Bridgend Rail Station, about 1010 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Brynteg School (outside), 140 metres away.