Hendredenny Park Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Hendredenny Park Primary School is in a residential area on the outskirts of Caerphilly.

The school has 249 pupils on roll including 39 part-time nursery children. Pupils are taught in eight single-age classes. Around 5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.

This is well below the average for Wales of 19%. The school identifies 12% of pupils as having additional learning needs, which is much lower than the national average. 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. A very few pupils speak Welsh at home. The last inspection of the s...chool was in November 2009.

The current headteacher took up her post in 2005. The school is currently a £pioneer school£. This means that it is working with the Welsh Government and other pioneer schools to develop a national model of professional learning and to develop and pilot a new curriculum for Wales.

The individual school budget per pupil for Hendredenny Park Primary in 2016-2017 means that the budget is £2,895 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Caerphilly is £4,854 and the minimum is £2,696. Hendredenny Park Primary is 62nd out of the 75 primary schools in Caerphilly in terms of its school budget per pupil.