Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School is an 11-19 community school serving the town of Barry and its surrounding area in the Vale of Glamorgan local authority. There are currently 1,214 pupils on roll, a slight reduction from the last inspection in 2006, including 240 in the sixth form. Bryn Hafren operates in partnership with Barry Comprehensive School, as the Barry Sixth Form, providing English medium post-16 education. The majority of pupils have neither social advantage nor disadvantage, but a small proportion come from advantaged backgrounds and 18.1% of pupils live in the 20% most deprived areas in Wales. In the current academic year, 29.7% of pupils are entitled to free school meals, which is well above the Welsh average of 17.4% for secondary schools. About 23% of pupils are on the school’s special educational needs register. The percentage of pupils with a statement of special educational needs is 1%, compared with 2.6% for Wales as a whole. Around 6% 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. There are virtually no pupils who speak Welsh as a first language or to an equivalent standard. The individual school budget per pupil for Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School in 2011-2012 means that the budget is £4,191 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan is £4,191 and the minimum is £3,687. Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School is first out of the eight secondary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan in terms of its school budget per pupil.