Barry Comprehensive School is an 11 to 18 school for boys, serving the town of Barry and the surrounding area, and maintained by the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Currently there are 1,183 pupils on roll, which is a reduction from the 1,365 pupils at the time of the last inspection in February 2007. There are 250 in the sixth form, which is a significant increase from the 156 at the time of the last inspection. Barry Comprehensive School operates in partnership with Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School as the Barry Sixth Form in providing English medium post-16 education. The majority of pupils have neither social advantage nor disadvantage and 18.3% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales. Around 27% of pupils are entitled to free school meals, which is above the Welsh average of 17.4% for secondary schools. About 28% of pupils are on the school’s special educational needs register. The percentage of pupils with a statement of special educational needs is 0.7%, which is below the Wales figure of 2.4%. Around 5% of the school’s pupils are from a minority-ethnic or mixed-race background. A very small proportion of pupils are learning English as an additional language and very few pupils speak Welsh as their first language. The headteacher took up his post in September 2012. The senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, a deputy headteacher, who was appointed from within the school in January 2010, and four assistant headteachers, all of whom have been appointed after 2007. The individual school budget per pupil for Barry Comprehensive School in 2012-2013 means that the budget is £4,083 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan is £4,359 and the minimum is £3,794. Barry Comprehensive School is fifth out of the eight secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan in terms of its school budget per pupil.