Cradoc C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Cradoc County Primary School is in the village of Cradoc near Brecon, Powys. There are 131 pupils on roll from 3 and 11 years of age, including 20 who attend part-time in the nursery.

There is also a class for three-year-old children on the school site, funded by the local authority, but the setting is not part of this inspection. Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity. A very few pupils speak English as an additional language or speak Welsh at home.

The three-year average of pupils eligible for free school meals is about 2%. This is considerably below the national average of 19%. The school identifies around 15% of pupils as having additional learning needs, which is below the national average of 25%.

A... very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs. The school's last inspection was in February 2012. The headteacher took up her post in April 2013.

Since January 2016, she is acting as the headteacher of another local school and spends half of her time at each site. The school is currently a £curriculum pioneer school£. This means that it is working with the Welsh Government and other curriculum pioneer schools to develop and to pilot a new curriculum for Wales.

The individual school budget per pupil for Cradoc County Primary School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £3,333 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Powys is £5,561 and the minimum is £2,960. Cradoc County Primary School is 61st out of the 83 primary schools in Powys in terms of its school budget per pupil.