Ysgol Gynradd Rhiwlas

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ysgol Gynradd Rhiwlas is a rural school and serves the village and the surrounding area. It provides education for pupils between 3 and 11 years old. Welsh is the school's everyday language and the main medium of teaching and learning.

English is taught formally in key stage 2. Approximately half of pupils come from Welsh-speaking homes. There are no children from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Children are admitted to the nursery class on a part-time basis in the September following their third birthday, and full-time in the September following their fourth birthday. During the inspection, there were 42 pupils on roll, including seven in the nursery class. They are taught by one full-time teacher and two part-time teachers ...in two mixed-age classes.

Very few pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is significantly below the national average. Forty two per cent (42%) of pupils are on the school's additional learning needs register. This figure is significantly higher than the percentage for Wales.

No pupils have a statement of special educational needs. The headteacher was appointed in September 2012. The school was last inspected in November 2009.

The individual school budget per pupil for Ysgol Gynradd Rhiwlas in 2016-2017 is £5,041. The maximum per pupil in primary schools in Gwynedd is £10,404 and the minimum is £3,089. Ysgol Gynradd Rhiwlas is in 16th place of the 93 primary schools in Gwynedd in terms of the school budget per pupil.