St Joseph’s Junior School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

St Joseph's Catholic Junior School is in Port Talbot within the Diocese of Menevia, in Neath Port Talbot local authority.

The school has 152 pupils on roll, aged from 7 to 11. There are five classes, three of which are mixed-age. average of 18%.

The school identifies around 36% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This is above the national average of 21%. Around 24% of pupils come from an ethnic minority background and around 17% have English as an additional language.

No pupils speak Welsh at home. The headteacher took up her post in March 2015 after a period of two years as acting headteacher. The school's previous inspection was in October 2012.

Until recently, the school was working with th...e Welsh Government and other schools to take forward developments relating to education reform in Wales. Estyn does not inspect religious education or the religious content of collective worship when inspecting a school with a religious character. Instead, the governing body is required by law to arrange for religious education and collective worship to be inspected separately.