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Melin Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
MILE END ROW, Melincryddan, Neath SA11 2ED · 01639 645414
On the mapSearch near SA11 2ED
Overview
- Estyn
- Significant Improvement
- Follow-up category · last inspected August 2025
- Pupils
- 261
- Local authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 41.9%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 12%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 5.7%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 14%
- 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: significant improvement. Its last full inspection was in August 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Significant ImprovementEstyn page
Recommendations · August 2025
- Improve the accuracy and effectiveness of self-evaluation and improvement planning
- Improve the quality of teaching and assessment for older pupils to ensure that they make the progress they should in learning
- Strengthen the curriculum to provide authentic, purposeful learning activities that enable older pupils to build on their skills progressively
- Improve attendance
All reports
- Aug 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2025Summary for parents and carers
Mar 2018Inspection report2 recommendations
- Raise the attainment of more able pupils
- Enable pupils to influence how and what they learn