Ogmore Vale Primary

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ogmore Vale Primary School is in the village of Ogmore Vale in the county borough of Bridgend. The school serves Ogmore Vale and the surrounding area.

There are 368 pupils on role, aged between 3 and 11 years, including 31 full-time nursery pupils. The school has 13 mainstream classes, five of which are mixed-age. There are also two local authority learning resource bases.

One is a foundation phase observation class and the other caters for pupils with a wide range of moderate learning difficulties. Both include pupils from outside the school's catchment area. Around 30% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the national average of 19%.

The school identifies 21% of its pupils as having addit...ional learning needs, which is the same as the national average. Nearly all pupils are white British and a very few speak Welsh at home. A very few pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds or have English as an additional language.

A very few are looked after by a local authority. The headteacher took up her in post in January 2015. The school's last inspection was in January 2011.