St Andrew's Primary School, Newport

St Andrew's 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 727 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

27% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 12% have additional learning needs (38% in 2020/21); 39% are learning English as an additional language; and 56% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 87 pupils (Reception) to 97 (Year 2).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £5,618 per pupil, against £3,726 in 2021-22. It carried forward £360k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its January 2024 inspection summarises St Andrew's Primary School like this:

"St Andrew’s Primary is a highly inclusive school community where pupils thrive. The headteacher provides inspirational leadership and together with her leadership team, secures outstanding support for pupils’ well-being and learning. Leaders, teachers and support staff value every child for who they are and the unique contribution they make to the school family. Leaders know pupils and their families well and understand the challenges they face. The school’s sensitive approach to ensuring pupils’ well-being and support for families, together with a rich and engaging curriculum, and high-quality teaching, ensures all pupils, including those from low-income families make strong progress. Staff create a warm and welcoming environment that gives pupils a strong sense of belonging and all provide exceptionally high levels of care and support for pupils across the school. Pupils with additional learning needs (ALN), including those in the school’s learning resource bases and nurture classes benefit from the expertise of motivated teachers and teaching assistants."

"As a result, pupils with ALN make strong progress. Teachers have a secure understanding of Curriculum for Wales. They skilfully plan lessons that help pupils to make sense of their learning and to relate what they learn to their own life experiences. Pupils develop extremely well as independent learners. The school provides valuable opportunities for pupils to grow in confidence and develop work and life skills. An outstanding aspect of this work is the school’s Radio Reach, where pupils create their own digital podcasts for broadcast across the school. Pupils show immense pride in this work."

"Most pupils develop a range of skills well. They make strong progress in developing mathematical and numeracy skills. Pupils quickly develop a love of reading and develop sound writing skills. Teachers ensure that pupils develop a wide range of skills across other aspects of the curriculum. These opportunities enable pupils from nursery to Year 6 to develop their creativity, thinking and problem-solving as well as dexterity through activities such as woodwork. Pupils’ Welsh language skills are at an early stage of development."

Estyn made 1 recommendation: (1) Improve pupils’ Welsh speaking skills.

The nearest other state primary schools to St Andrew's Primary School are St Patrick's R.C. Primary School (0.2 miles), Somerton Primary School (0.6 miles), Lliswerry Primary School (0.6 miles) and Eveswell Primary School (0.6 miles).

The nearest railway station is Newport (S Wales) Rail Station, about 1.4 miles away in a straight line.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Andrew`s Primary School (outside), 120 metres away.