Palmerston Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Palmerston Primary School is in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan.

There are 217 pupils on roll aged three to eleven. The school has eight classes, most of which are single age classes. In addition, the school has a resource base for pupils with complex physical and medical disabilities funded by the local authority.

These pupils are fully integrated into mainstream classes and access a modified curriculum. The school identifies around 20% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This is just below the national average.

There are very few pupils with a statement of special educational needs. Very few pupils come from an ethnic minority background or speak English as an additional language. Very few pupils speak... Welsh at home.

national average. The headteacher took up his post in April 2005. The school was last inspected in June 2009.

The individual school budget per pupil for Palmerston Primary School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,620 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan is £4,576 and the minimum is £2,773. Palmerston Primary School is 15th out of the 45 primary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan in terms of its school budget per pupil.