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Colcot Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Florence Avenue, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan CF62 9XH · 01446 735719
On the mapSearch near CF62 9XH
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected December 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 283
- Local authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 36.6%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 15.6%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 2.9%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 7.3%
- 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
- Improve staff understanding of child development and pupil engagement to ensure that all adults provide purposeful learning that builds on pupils' skills… Full report
- Strengthen the quality and consistency of feedback to help pupils improve their work and achieve the next steps in their learning
- Improve standards in Welsh
- Improve the financial management of the school
All reports
- Dec 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Dec 2025Summary for parents and carers
Mar 2018Inspection report4 recommendations
- Improve pupils' use of graphs to present information in various topics in key stage 2
- Reduce the number of pupils who are late for school and improve systems for recording lateness
- Ensure that staff apply the school's methods for managing pupils' behaviour effectively in all classes
- Address the safeguarding concerns identified during the inspection