Llangynidr C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Llangynidr Community Primary School is in the village of Llangynidr in the Powys local authority.

The school provides education for pupils aged three to eleven. The school serves the local community and also draws from a catchment area that includes Talybont, Bwlch, Cwmdu and other surrounding villages. There are 133 pupils on roll including four pupils in the nursery class.

This is a slight increase since the school's last inspection. The school is organised into five classes with a majority of pupils taught in mixed age classes. In total, the school employs two full-time and six part-time teachers, including the headteacher.

The school identifies 16% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This number has... risen steadily over the last four years. There are very few pupils with a statement of special educational needs.

Very few pupils are from an ethnic minority background and no pupils speak English as an additional language. No pupils come from a home where Welsh is spoken as a first language. Around 5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is well below the national average.

The school was last inspected in June 2011. The headteacher took up her post in June 2014. The individual school budget per pupil for Llangynidr C.

P. School in 2015-2016 means that the budget is £3,306 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Powys is £7,431 and the minimum is £3,035.

Llangynidr C.P. School is 67th out of the 84 primary schools in Powys in terms of its school budget per pupil.