Meidrim C.P. School, Carmarthenshire

Meidrim C.P. School is a Welsh-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 32 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

Year groups range from 2 pupils (Year 1) to 10 (Year 3).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £6,544 per pupil, against £4,788 in 2021-22. It ended 2024-25 with a deficit of £28k.

Estyn's report on its April 2024 inspection summarises Meidrim C.P. School like this:

"Ysgol Meidrim has a friendly ethos. Pupils, staff and parents take pride in the school’s homely and inclusive feel. Everyone is respected and nearly all pupils are caring towards each other and give careful consideration to the needs of their peers, particularly the youngest pupils. They play happily together and staff encourage them to be polite and friendly. As a result, pupils’ behaviour is consistently good. Leaders have an appropriate understanding of some of the school’s strengths and improvement priorities."

"However, over time, leaders have not used the findings of these processes thoroughly enough to address important elements in terms of the quality of provision and pupils’ outcomes. For example, many of the recommendations from the previous inspection continue to be important areas of improvement for the school. Many pupils make limited progress from their starting points, particularly in their literacy and numeracy skills. On the whole, teachers plan suitable activities to engage pupils’ interest. However, they do not plan purposefully enough to ensure constructive progress in pupils’ skills over time. As a result, pupils are not challenged appropriately across the areas of learning."

"Staff have a caring working relationship with pupils. They provide appropriate feedback to support pupils in their work. However, pupils are not given opportunities to respond to feedback regularly enough to improve their work and take more responsibility for their learning. The school’s arrangements for supporting pupils with additional needs are suitable. Staff work effectively with a number of agencies to support pupils’ needs appropriately."

Estyn made 4 recommendations: (1) Address the safeguarding issue raised during the inspection; (2) Define and develop leaders’ responsibilities to operate more strategically, ensuring that self-evaluation and planning for improvement processes are rigorous enough to address the areas for improvement; (3) Plan purposeful opportunities for pupils to develop and apply their literacy and numeracy skills purposefully across the areas of learning over time, by setting an appropriate challenge to ensure that all pupils achieve to the best of their ability; (4) Ensure that teachers’ feedback and regular opportunities for pupils to respond to it is implemented purposefully to support them to improve their work and raise standards.

The nearest other state primary schools to Meidrim C.P. School are Bancyfelin C.P. School (2.5 miles), Ysgol Griffith Jones (2.6 miles) and Y.G. Cynwyl Elfed (6.4 miles).

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Meidrim C.P. School.

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is New Inn, 180 metres away.