St Pauls Voluntary Aided Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

St. Paul's Church in Wales Voluntary Aided Primary School is an English-medium primary school in Wrexham. The school serves a rural area close to the English border.

Since April 2016, the school and Borderbrook Anglican Voluntary Controlled School have formed the Maelor Church Schools Federation. Both schools share the same headteacher and governing body. St Paul's Primary School was last inspected in November 2009.

This is the first inspection of the school since the federation. There are 50 pupils on roll, including a few part-time nursery pupils. Pupils are taught in two mixed-age classes.

One class caters for foundation phase aged pupils and the other for pupils in key stage 2. Around 13% of pupils are eligibl...e for free school meals. This is below the Wales average of 19%.

The school has identified around 30% of pupils as having additional learning needs, which is higher than the Wales average of 21%. Nearly all pupils are white British. A very few pupils speak English as an additional language.

No pupils speak Welsh at home. The headteacher, who is the existing headteacher of Borderbrook Anglican Voluntary Controlled School, was appointed as headteacher of St. Paul's Church in Wales Voluntary Aided Primary and the head of the federation in January 2016.