St Joseph’s R.C. Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

St Joseph's voluntary aided Roman Catholic Primary school is in the Archdiocese of Cardiff, and is situated on the eastern outskirts of Newport. There are 215 pupils on roll, aged between 4 and 11 years. The average proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals over the last three years is about 11%.

This is below the average for Wales, which is 18%. The school identifies around 18% of its pupils as having additional learning needs, which is below the national average of 21%. Around 31% of the pupils are from varied ethnic backgrounds with 19% of them learning English as an additional language.

Estyn does not inspect religious education or the religious content of collective worship when it is a school with a religio...us character. Instead, the governing body is required by law to arrange for religious education and collective worship to be inspected separately. The school's previous inspection was in June 2011 and the current head teacher took up her post in September 2015.