Penycae Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Penycae Community Primary School has two separate sites for infant and junior pupils in the village of Penycae on the outskirts of Wrexham. It caters for 220 pupils aged from 3 to 11. There are nine classes.

The school identifies 23% of pupils as having additional learning needs, which is just below the national average. Approximately 32% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is well above the national average. There are no pupils who speak Welsh at home and a very few pupils with English as an additional language.

A very few pupils are looked after by the local authority. The headteacher was appointed in September 2008 following the amalgamation of the infant and junior schools. The school's last inspection ...was in March 2010.

The individual school budget per pupil for Penycae Community Primary School in 2015-2016 means that the budget is £3,384 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Wrexham is £8,199 and the minimum is £2,778. Penycae Community Primary School is 34th out of the 60 primary schools in Wrexham in terms of its school budget per pupil.

1 A report on Penycae Community Primary School July 2016