Llandaff City C.I.W. Primary School, Cardiff

Llandaff City C.I.W. Primary School is an English-medium school in Wales. Welsh schools are inspected by Estyn rather than Ofsted, and its latest report is published on Estyn's website.

It had 396 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 3% have additional learning needs (14% in 2020/21); 5% are learning English as an additional language; and 30% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 46 pupils (Year 1) to 60 (Year 2).

Estyn's report on its December 2022 inspection summarises Llandaff City C.I.W. Primary School like this:

"Llandaff City CIW Primary School is a nurturing learning environment where pupils develop effective skills in areas such as language and mathematics. Pupils are thoughtful and inquisitive. They speak eloquently and share their thoughts and ideas readily. Pupils have positive working relationships with staff and with each other. They enjoy, and respond to challenge, positively. They behave well and enjoy taking the lead."

"By the time they reach the end of the school, many have well-developed opinions, which they share with others maturely. The school is working thoughtfully towards implementing changes in the light of the Curriculum for Wales reforms. Pupils benefit from a range of stimulating learning experiences and as a result, engage enthusiastically in their learning. Provision to develop pupils’ Welsh language skills is effective and pupils’ use the language confidently. However, there remains work to do in areas such as curriculum balance, the development of pupils’ information and communication technology (ICT) skills and classroom-based, formative assessment. Leaders work diligently to provide the best for all."

"They work thoughtfully, with pupils’ well-being firmly in mind. For example, they have set in place helpful procedures that allow them to identify and support pupils’ emotional needs well. Leaders support and challenge all at the school to do their best. They provide staff with beneficial opportunities for professional learning in order to ensure that they are able to undertake their different roles confidently. They consider thoughtfully how best to evaluate the work of the school, although these processes need to be sharper."

Estyn made 4 recommendations: (1) Develop the curriculum to offer pupils a more balanced range of learning and give stronger opportunities to develop their cross curricular numeracy and digital skills; (2) Sharpen monitoring so that it focuses better on identifying strengths and shortcomings in pupils’ learning, and evaluates the quality and impact of provision; (3) Improve formative assessment practices so pupils know how to be successful and what they need to do to improve; (4) Improve pupils’ information and communication technology (ICT) skills.

The nearest other state primary schools to Llandaff City C.I.W. Primary School are Ysgol Pencae (0.5 miles), Ysgol Glan Ceubal (0.5 miles), Gabalfa Primary School (0.6 miles) and Millbank Primary School (0.8 miles).

The nearest railway station is Waun-gron Park Rail Station, about 770 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Black Lion (after), 110 metres away.