Gors Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Gors Community Primary School is in the city of Swansea and serves the areas of Cockett and Townhill. There are 309 pupils on roll between the ages of 4 and 11 years on roll.

Sixty-one pupils attend the school's nursery part-time. The school admits pupils to its nursery class at the start of the term following their third birthday. There are 12 classes, four of which are mixed age.

Around 41% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This figure is above the national average and has remained steady over the last three years. The school identifies that approximately 52% of pupils have additional learning needs.

A very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs. Pupil mobility is a significant fact...or for the school with nearly 25% of statutory age pupils having left or joined the school in the academic year 2015 to 2016. This compares with an average rate of 6.

4% for the City and County of Swansea. Around 30% of pupils come from 31 different minority ethnic backgrounds. Around 28% of pupils speak first languages at home other than English or Welsh.

Very few pupils speak Welsh at home. The headteacher took up her post in September 2016. Estyn last inspected the school in January 2010.

The individual school budget per pupil for Gors Community Primary School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,450 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in the City and County of Swansea is £5,232 and the minimum is £2,703. Gors Community Primary School is 38 out of the 79 primary schools in the City and County of Swansea in terms of its school budget per pupil.