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Blaen-y-Cwm Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Blaenafon Road, Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent NP23 4BR · 01495 313524
On the mapSearch near NP23 4BR
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected November 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 274
- Local authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 32.2%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 7.2%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 19.5%
- 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 November 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · November 2025
- Manage the school's finances more effectively in order to address the budget deficit
- Improve pupils' Welsh oracy skills
All reports
- Nov 2025Inspection reportLast full
- Nov 2025Summary for parents and carers
May 2018Inspection report4 recommendations
- Improve the quality of independent, extended writing in the foundation phase
- Plan to widen pupils' application of their numeracy skills in work across the curriculum
- Ensure that tasks, particularly in mathematics, challenge more able pupils
- Develop the role of the governing body as a critical friend
- Jun 2013Inspection report