Builth Wells C.P. School

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Builth Wells County Primary School, in Powys, is a bilingual, dual-stream school, which serves the town of Builth Wells and the surrounding area.

The school has 260 pupils on roll, including 12 full-time nursery children. There are 10 classes including eight mixed age classes. There are five Welsh-medium and five English-medium classes.

There is an Area Learning Support Class (ALSC) in the school, which caters for pupils with special educational needs from the high school's catchment area. Around 17% of pupils have special educational needs, a figure which is below the national average. A very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs.

Around 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is ...below the average for Wales. A few pupils speak Welsh at home, and a very few are from an ethnic minority background.

The last inspection of the school was in July 2011. The current headteacher took up his post in January 2016. The individual school budget per pupil for Builth Wells C.

P. School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,425 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Powys is £5,561 and the minimum is £2,960.

Builth Wells C.P. School is 52nd out of the 83 primary schools in Powys in terms of its school budget per pupil.