Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed, Newport

Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed is a Welsh-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 526 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

16% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 6% have additional learning needs (26% in 2020/21); and 10% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 34 pupils (Year 12) to 99 (Year 7).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £7,505 per pupil, against £5,224 in 2021-22. It carried forward £0k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its May 2022 inspection summarises Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed like this:

"Many pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed are proud to be a part of the school community. They get on well and respect each other’s points of view. Overall, they benefit from purposeful opportunities to develop their understanding of Welsh culture and traditions. Many pupils behave well in lessons. They work productively with their teachers, work diligently throughout the lesson and respond constructively to verbal and written feedback. A few pupils do not show positive attitudes to learning, which means that they do not make sufficient progress. On the whole, strategic planning to develop provision for wellbeing and inclusion is not robust enough to ensure that teachers and leaders work proactively enough to address these issues. A strong feature of the school’s provision is the opportunities for pupils to develop their oral skills."

"Many pupils express themselves effectively and offer good extended answers when responding to questions or when presenting an opinion during a discussion. The school’s leaders have worked together effectively to ensure staff’s professional development to support the teaching of oracy skills and the effect of this can be seen in lessons. There are suitable opportunities for pupils to use their reading, writing and numeracy skills across the curriculum. However, there are not enough opportunities for pupils to develop their higher-order reading skills and digital competence. In many lessons, teachers plan activities that challenge pupils suitably. In these lessons, pupils make appropriate progress in their subject skills. The lesson’s tasks build sensibly, which means that there is a suitable pace to learning. In a few lessons where pupils make swift progress, teachers adapt the pace of learning skilfully to respond to pupils’ needs."

"These teachers plan their lessons expertly to ensure that all pupils make strong progress. Since being appointed in June 2020, the headteacher has worked diligently with the deputy head to ensure the smooth running of the school through the challenging period of the pandemic. They have also managed the school while work has been ongoing to complete the buildings. Due to the building work, pupils have little space to socialise and play outside. The school has self-evaluation processes that include beneficial activity, such as lesson observations and scrutiny of pupils’ work, and findings feed appropriately into school improvement plans. However, systems for gathering information to evaluate the school’s work do not focus specifically enough on pupils’ progress and skills nor the quality of provision. Report on Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed"

Estyn made 5 recommendations: (1) Strengthen leadership capacity to ensure that leaders across the school operate more strategically in their areas of responsibility; (2) Strengthen provision for inclusion and pupils’ additional learning needs; (3) Ensure more cohesive provision to develop pupils’ reading, numeracy and digital competence skills; (4) Strengthen leaders’ ability to evaluate the quality of provision in light of its effect on pupils’ learning, skills and wellbeing; (5) Respond to the health and safety issue that was identified during the inspection.

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include drama and STEM.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed are The John Frost School (under 0.1 miles), St Joseph's R.C.High School (0.6 miles), Bassaleg School (1.8 miles) and Lliswerry High School (2.8 miles).

The nearest railway station is Pye Corner Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed (inside), 80 metres away.