Comprehensive School Birchgrove Comprehensive School is an 11 to 16 co-educational community school maintained by Swansea local authority. There are currently 428 pupils on roll, compared with 648 pupils at the time of the last inspection in 2013. The school serves a suburban area between Neath and Swansea on the eastern side of Swansea. Around 29% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is much higher than the national average of 16.4% and around 40% live in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales. Nearly 33% have a special educational need, including close to 13% who have a statement for that need. Both figures are much higher than the national averages. The school has two specialist teaching facilities catering for pupils with both specific and moderate learning difficulties. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language or to an equivalent standard. The senior leadership team consists of the headteacher, who took up post in September 2016, a deputy headteacher, two assistant headteachers and a finance officer.