Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti, Sir Y Fflint

Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti 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 289 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

30% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 8% have additional learning needs (21% in 2020/21); 2% are learning English as an additional language; and 3% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 31 pupils (Year 3) to 44 (Year 1).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £5,248 per pupil, against £5,582 in 2021-22. It ended 2024-25 with a deficit of £233k.

Estyn's report on its October 2023 inspection summarises Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti like this:

"Most pupils make sound progress in a range of skills during their time at Ysgol Croes Atti. A prominent strength of this school is the way in which enthusiastic leaders and staff work together successfully between the school’s two sites, in Flint and Shotton in Deeside, to develop confident Welsh-medium pupils. The work of the staff to ensure pupils’ Welsh language development is commendable. Leaders know the school well. This includes identifying the needs of pupils, the community and strengths and areas for improvement well."

"With this information to hand, they set a clear direction for the school and operate strategically by setting sensible priorities and strengthening provision. As a result, there is robust provision in place to support pupils’ well-being and improve standards. Provision to ensure care, support and guidance for pupils is very robust and succeeds in maintaining and strengthening the well-being of all of the school’s pupils. The good teaching and planning by teachers to provide an engaging curriculum and learning experiences ensures that pupils have positive attitudes to learning. Through this, pupils feel that they belong to the school and are keen to complete their work and persevere with it diligently."

"The school’s work and focus to develop pupils as independent learners usually have clear successes. They are given opportunities to influence the life and work of the school greatly, contribute to what they would like to learn and are usually given opportunities to guide their learning in lessons sensibly. However, a few aspects of teaching and planning prevent pupils from developing independent learning skills of the highest standard. The result of this can be seen in fewer opportunities for them to write at length and freely, for example."

Estyn made 2 recommendations: (1) Sharpen teaching and planning to build on best practice in terms of developing pupils’ independent learning skills; (2) Increase opportunities for pupils to master their extended writing skills.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti are St Mary's R.C. Primary School (0.3 miles), Gwynedd C.P. School (0.4 miles), Cornist Park C.P. School (1 mile) and Merllyn C.P. School (2.2 miles).

The nearest railway station is Flint Rail Station, about 590 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Trelawney Avenue (before), 90 metres away.