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Hirwaun Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Glannant Street, Hirwaun, Aberdare CF44 9NF · 01685 811619
On the mapSearch near CF44 9NF
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected February 2026
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 294
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 36%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 8.2%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 0%
- 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 February 2026. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · February 2026
- Ensure that all staff and governors undertake all mandatory safeguarding training
- Improve attendance
- Develop pupils' problem-solving skills
All reports
- Feb 2026Inspection reportLast full
- Feb 2026Summary for parents and carers
- Jul 2019Monitoring visit
Feb 2018Inspection report6 recommendations
- Improve the quality of teaching and feedback to pupils
- Improve standards of pupils' reading, writing and presentation of work
- Improve pupils' standards in information and communication technology (ICT)
- Ensure that the curriculum meets requirements and develops pupils' skills progressively
- Improve pupils' independent learning skills
- Correctly identify and address important areas of teaching and learning that need to improve and hold all members of staff to account robustly
- Mar 2013Monitoring visit
- Sept 2011Inspection report