Ysgol Gymunedol Croesgoch

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ysgol Gymunedol Croesgoch is situated in the village of Croesgoch between St David's and Fishguard, in Pembrokeshire. It serves the village and the surrounding rural areas.

There are 108 pupils on roll, including eight part-time nursery pupils. The school has four mixed-age classes. Around 23% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the national average.

About 23% of pupils have additional learning needs, which is below the national average, and very few pupils have a statement of special educational needs. Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity. Around 28% of pupils speak Welsh at home and no pupils have English as an additional language.

English is the main medium of the life and w...ork of the school. Most pupils are taught Welsh as a second language, but the school states that around 9% learn Welsh as their first language. The headteacher and deputy headteacher were absent from the school during the inspection.

The local authority had brought in an acting executive headteacher to take charge of the school for nine, non-consecutive days in the period leading up to the inspection. The headteacher was appointed to the post in September 2001 and the school was last inspected in June 2012. The individual school budget per pupil for Ysgol Gymunedol Croesgoch in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £4,276 per pupil.

The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Pembrokeshire is £6.870 and the minimum is £3,247. Ysgol Gymunedol Croesgoch is 18th out of the 61 primary schools in Pembrokeshire in terms of its school budget per pupil.