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St James Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Lansbury Park, Caerphilly CF83 3GT · stjames-caerphilly.co.uk · 029 2085 2522
On the mapSearch near CF83 3GT
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected August 2024
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 271
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 63.7%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 14.3%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- Too few to publish
- 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 2024. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · August 2024
- Ensure that all teachers support and challenge pupils appropriately so that they make effective progress in developing their literacy and numeracy skills
- Improve self-evaluation so that it focuses closely on identifying the impact of improvement strategies and professional learning on the quality of teaching and… Full report
- Reduce the level of persistent absentees
- Ensure that the school's curriculum provides pupils with meaningful learning experiences that enable them to make consistent and systematic progress
All reports
- Nov 2025Monitoring visit
- Aug 2024Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2024Summary for parents and carers
- May 2018Monitoring visit
- May 2016Inspection report