St Marks V.A.P. School

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St Mark's Voluntary Aided Church in Wales Primary School is in the village of Merlin's Bridge on the outskirts of Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. The school has 138 pupils on roll, including five full-time and 13 part-time nursery pupils.

There are five mixed-year classes. Around 42% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is well above the average for Wales of 19%.

The school identifies 40% of pupils as having additional learning needs, which is much higher than the national average of 25%. Very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs and very few are in the care of the local authority. Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity and come from homes where English is the main language.
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Very few pupils speak Welsh at home. The current headteacher took up her post in September 2014. The individual school budget per pupil for St Mark's Voluntary Aided-Church in Wales Primary School in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £4,000 per pupil.

The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Pembrokeshire is £6,870 and the minimum is £3,427. St. Mark's Voluntary Aided Church in Wales Primary School is 36th out of the 61 primary schools in Pembrokeshire in terms of its school budget per pupil.