Tredegar Comprehensive School, Blaenau Gwent

Tredegar 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 746 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

24% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 2% have additional learning needs (22% in 2020/21); and 5% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 127 pupils (Year 10) to 172 (Year 8).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £7,102 per pupil, against £5,259 in 2021-22. It ended 2024-25 with a deficit of £212k.

Estyn's report on its October 2025 inspection summarises Tredegar Comprehensive School like this:

"Tredegar Comprehensive School is a caring, safe and inclusive school community. Staff and pupils show a strong commitment to their school and local area. They foster strong relationships underpinned by the school's core values, and well-being provisions such as ‘Hafan’ offer valuable emotional support. Pupil leadership is a notable strength, with structured opportunities accessible from Year 7 onwards. The ‘Leadership Diploma’ recognises pupils’ achievements and contributions to wider school life. As a result, this helps to develop their leadership skills and build their confidence to become active members of the school and wider community. In most lessons, teachers establish calm, well-managed environments and apply strong subject knowledge and structured routines. This supports many pupils to make sound or better progress and to develop positive attitudes towards learning."

"However, a few teachers have low expectations and do not adapt activities to meet pupils' needs well enough, limiting engagement and progress. Pupils at Tredegar Comprehensive School benefit from an appropriate curriculum offer, which includes a range of vocational courses and a well-coordinated personal and social education (PSE) programme. However, planning for the progressive development of pupils’ skills is not sufficiently strategic. Pupils’ literacy, particularly advanced reading, and numeracy skills are not developed consistently well-enough across the curriculum. In addition, opportunities to develop their Welsh language skills, both in Welsh lessons and outside of lessons are underdeveloped. The school demonstrates a strong commitment to promoting good attendance through clear expectations and effective communication with pupils, parents and staff. Leaders and pastoral teams work closely together to monitor attendance and address barriers promptly. Despite this, overall rates of attendance remain below pre-pandemic levels."

"Since its establishment two years ago, the learning resource base (LRB) has developed into an inclusive, nurturing and well-structured provision that effectively supports the learning and well-being of pupils with autism. As a result, many pupils within the LRB pupils develop their confidence, communication and social skills well. The headteacher provides calm, purposeful leadership with a clear focus on raising aspirations and outcomes. Leaders have made progress in areas such as attendance, safeguarding, and support for vulnerable pupils. However, overall, self-evaluation and improvement planning processes are not precise enough. The governing body is very supportive of the school and provides suitable levels of challenge. The school currently has a deficit budget."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Sharpen self-evaluation and improvement planning processes to focus precisely on the impact of teaching and provision on pupil progress and outcomes; (2) Strengthen the provision for the progressive development of pupils’ skills across the curriculum, in particular their numeracy and advanced reading skills; (3) Strengthen the provision for the progressive development of pupils’ Welsh language skills and the opportunities to develop these outside of their Welsh lessons.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Tredegar Comprehensive School are Ebbw Fawr Learning Community (1.7 miles), Idris Davies School 3 to 18 (2 miles), Brynmawr Foundation School (4.2 miles) and Abertillery Learning Community (5 miles).

The nearest railway station is Ebbw Vale Town Rail Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tredegar Comprehensive School (at), 160 metres away.