Schools in Wales
OfferDay lists 1,576 schools across the 22 local authorities of Wales, each with its Estyn inspection history and the facts that matter to parents. Inspection frameworks and performance measures are never compared across the nations.
- Schools listed
- 1,576
- open schools across Wales, from nurseries to secondaries
- Local authorities
- 22
- every local authority with a hub page below
- Inspected by Estyn
- 1,452
- 92% of listed schools have an Estyn report on file
About schools in Wales
Schools in Wales follow the Curriculum for Wales and are inspected by Estyn, the country's own inspectorate. Admissions are handled by each council rather than one national service, so the timetable and the way places are offered differ from one authority to the next. Most children are offered their catchment school, and families can apply elsewhere where there is room. Many schools teach wholly or partly through the medium of Welsh, and a school's page notes its language category where the register records it.
To read an Estyn report with confidence, start with our guide to understanding Estyn inspections, which explains how the graded era before 2022 differs from the narrative reports Estyn writes now. For how and when to apply for a place, see school admissions and key dates.
Schools by town
- Cardiff 135 schools
- Swansea 99 schools
- Wrexham 70 schools
- Newport 69 schools
- Bridgend 50 schools
- Caerphilly 36 schools
- Neath 33 schools
- Merthyr Tydfil 20 schools
- Pontypridd 20 schools
- Port Talbot 18 schools
- Barry 17 schools
- Holyhead 12 schools
- Blackwood 12 schools
- Penarth 11 schools
- Aberdare 11 schools
- Colwyn Bay 11 schools
These are the largest towns in Wales. The 168 town pages in total are reachable through each local authority below.
Browse by local authority
Every school in Wales sits under one of its 22 local authorities. Choose one to see its schools by town and by phase.
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
See all local authorities in Wales as an A to Z index, or browse every school in Wales A to Z.
How we present schools in Wales
Estyn is the inspectorate for schools in Wales. We show each school's latest Estyn inspection date and report type and link straight to the report on Estyn. Estyn stopped giving summative grades to maintained schools in 2022 and now reports in narrative form, so we never turn an inspection into a single grade, and we never compare an Estyn outcome with an Ofsted or Education Scotland one.
Wales does not publish school-level exam results under an open licence, so our school pages show the characteristics the Welsh Government does publish, such as free school meal eligibility and English as an additional language, rather than attainment tables. Our data and methodology guide lists every source and how each one is used.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register and the Welsh Government's address list of schools. Inspection information comes from Estyn.