Ysgol Frongoch, Denbighshire

Ysgol Frongoch is a bilingual (Welsh and English) school in Wales. Welsh schools are inspected by Estyn rather than Ofsted, and its latest report is published on Estyn's website.

It had 201 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

12% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 7% have additional learning needs (15% in 2020/21); 8% are learning English as an additional language; and 10% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 45 pupils (Year 3) to 56 (Year 4).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £4,768 per pupil, against £3,691 in 2021-22. It ended 2024-25 with a deficit of £76k.

Estyn's report on its March 2022 inspection summarises Ysgol Frongoch like this:

"Ysgol Frongoch is a happy, caring school where pupils work and play together confidently. Staff help many pupils to make strong progress when developing their speaking and listening, mathematical and digital skills. They focus well on pupils’ well-being, and this allows pupils to thrive in the schools’ inclusive environment. Pupils develop their creative and thinking skills well in many aspects of their learning."

"Teachers take good account of pupils’ ideas when planning the curriculum and this helps to ensure that pupils engage consistently well in lessons. While teachers plan many interesting learning experiences, these do not always focus well enough on developing pupils’ skills systematically. This means that in areas such as reading and writing, certain of pupils' skills do not always progress strongly enough. Teachers are beginning to help pupils to understand how to assess and improve their learning independently, but both teachers and pupils do not have a consistently strong understanding of how best to achieve this."

"Leaders place a high priority on developing pupils as independent learners who know how to manage their emotions and behaviours and who support their peers helpfully. They focus well on ensuring that all staff feel part of the school team. This ensures that everyone, including governors, understands the school’s priorities and works together supportively. Nevertheless, when monitoring and evaluating the work of the school and when planning professional learning, leaders do not always focus well enough on areas that need improvement, such as improving the quality of teaching and planning for the implementation of educational reform."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Focus self-evaluation and development strategies more sharply on improving pupils’ progress and learning; (2) Develop a more strategic approach to professional learning that focuses on education reform and securing high quality teaching; (3) Improve pupils’ reading and writing skills.

From the headteacher's welcome: "We are delighted to have been entrusted with your child for their learning journey here at Frongoch. We take our responsibilities very seriously and look upon the next four years as a journey that we will travel together as we develop healthy, ambitious, creative and informed young people."

The school runs a breakfast club, from £2 per day.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Frongoch are Ysgol Twm o'r Nant (under 0.1 miles), Ysgol Y Parc Infants (0.2 miles), Ysgol Pendref (1 mile) and Ysgol Gymraeg Henllan (2.2 miles).

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Ysgol Frongoch.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ysgol Frongoch, 50 metres away.