Lakeside Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Lakeside Primary School serves the Lakeside and Cyncoed areas of Cardiff. Most pupils live locally. Around 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.

This is well below the average for Wales. There are currently 515 pupils on roll including 71 part-time nursery pupils. There are 17 classes in total, taught by 14 full-time and 10 part-time teachers.

Eight full-time and 27 part-time learning support staff assist them. The school identifies around 14% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This is below the national average.

Very few pupils currently have a statement of special educational needs. Almost 50% of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds and almost 43% of pupils who have English as an a...dditional language. These are well above local and national levels.

Very few pupils speak Welsh at home. The headteacher took up her post in 2007. Estyn last inspected the school in December 2008.

The individual school budget for Lakeside Primary School in 2014-2015 means that the budget is £3,122 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Cardiff is £6,523 and the minimum is £2,908. Lakeside Primary School is 84th out of the 95 primary schools in Cardiff in terms of its school budget per pupil.