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Blackwood Primary
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Apollo Way, Blackwood NP12 1WA · 01495 224111
On the mapSearch near NP12 1WA
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected August 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 372
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 32.1%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 6.2%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 3.3%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 8.4%
- 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 August 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · August 2025
- Improve attendance
- Ensure that teachers model suitable methods of calculation effectively and address pupils' misconceptions consistently
All reports
- Aug 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2025Summary for parents and carers
May 2017Inspection report6 recommendations
- Further develop pupils' ability to apply their numeracy skills in work across the curriculum
- Continue to build systematically on pupils' Welsh skills
- Improve attendance
- Ensure that pupils have a clear understanding of how to improve their work
- Develop greater independent learning in the Foundation Phase
- Improve financial controls to ensure better value for money