Baglan Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Baglan Primary School is in Baglan in the Neath Port Talbot local authority. The school shares a large site with the local authority's education and training centre.

The school has 270 pupils aged three to eleven on roll. There has been a large increase in the number of pupils since the last inspection. There are nine classes including two that are mixed-age.

Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity. A very few pupils are from a minority ethnic background. Very few speak English as an additional language.

A very few pupils come from Welsh speaking families. The school identifies 24% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This figure is close to the national average for primary schools (25%).
...r/>Very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs. Around 20% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. A very few pupils are looked after by the local authority.

There were no exclusions during the last academic year. The last inspection of the school was in November 2009. The current headteacher took up the post in January 2012.

The individual school budget per pupil for Baglan Primary School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,145 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Neath Port Talbot is £6,224 and the minimum is £2,851. Baglan Primary School is 46th out of the57 primary schools in Neath Port Talbot in terms of its school budget per pupil.