St Robert’s Primary Catholic School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

St Robert's Catholic Primary School is in the village of Aberkenfig, in the Bridgend local authority. There are 179 pupils aged three to eleven years at the school, including 22 pupils in the part-time nursery class. There are six mainstream classes of mixed age groups.

Approximately 12% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is much lower than the national average. A very few pupils are looked after by the local authority.

Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity, with a very few pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language at home or have English as an additional language. The school has identified around 14% of pupils as having additional learning needs.

...>This is well below the average for Wales. There have been no fixed-term exclusions in the last year. The last inspection was in March, 2009.

The current headteacher took up the post in July 2011. The individual school budget per pupil for St. Robert's Roman Catholic Primary School in 2014-2015 means that the budget is £3,321 per pupil.

The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Bridgend is £4,735 and the minimum is £2,926. St. Robert's Roman Catholic Primary School is 25th out of the 49 primary schools in Bridgend in terms of its school budget per pupil.