Cwmaber Infant School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Cwmaber Infant School is in the village of Abertridwr in the Caerphilly local authority.

There are about 144 pupils aged three to seven on roll. This includes around 36 pupils in the part-time nursery class. The school has four full-time classes.

Around 32% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is higher than the average for Wales (19%). There are a very few children looked after by the local authority. The school identifies around 22% of pupils as having additional learning needs.

Very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs. Very few pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds or speak English as an additional language. No pupils speak Welsh as their first language.

There... were two fixed-term exclusions over the past school year. The headteacher took up her post in September 1998. The school's last inspection was in September 2011.

The individual school budget per pupil for Cwmaber Infants School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,612 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Caerphilly is £4,854 and the minimum is £2,696. Cwmaber Infants School is 15th out of the 75 primary schools in Caerphilly in terms of its school budget per pupil.