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Y Castell
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Priory Street, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire SA17 4TR · 01554 890762
On the mapSearch near SA17 4TR
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected December 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 218
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 23.8%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 11%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 7.1%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 12.9%
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in December 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · December 2025
- Strengthen self-evaluation and improvement processes to identify and address shortcomings in teaching
- Improve the use of assessment and feedback to support pupils' progress
All reports
- Dec 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Dec 2025Summary for parents and carers
- Nov 2021Monitoring visit
Jul 2019Inspection report7 recommendations
- Address the shortcomings in safeguarding and health and safety identified during the inspection
- Improve leadership at all levels and promote effective collaboration among all staff
- Improve the effectiveness of self-evaluation and improvement planning
- Ensure that staff have high expectations of pupil achievement and provide pupils with tasks and feedback that challenge them to make the progress of which they… Full report
- Improve attendance
- Ensure a balanced curriculum that allows appropriate time for pupils to develop the full range of skills and greater opportunities to learn independently
- Ensure that the school's information about pupils' progress is accurate and used well to inform next steps in learning
- Jun 2014Inspection report