Ysgol Maes Y Mynydd, Wrexham

Ysgol Maes Y Mynydd 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 294 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

40% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 9% have additional learning needs; 18% are learning English as an additional language; and 31% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 28 pupils (Reception) to 50 (Year 2).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £5,477 per pupil, against £4,097 in 2021-22. It carried forward £116k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its November 2023 inspection summarises Ysgol Maes Y Mynydd like this:

"The headteacher, leaders and staff form an effective team. They share a common purpose to continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the school and to support pupil well-being. Staff understand and meet the needs of pupils, families and the local community well. The school’s arrangements to support pupils eligible for free school meals and those from low-income households are strong."

"The role of well-being manager is particularly effective in creating positive, supportive working relationships with families. In nearly all cases, pupils have positive attitudes to their learning, take part enthusiastically in lessons and activities, and collaborate well with each other. Overall, they make good progress in the development of their social, literacy, numeracy and other skills. This is because teachers plan engaging and interesting lessons and activities."

"However, in a few cases, adults lead pupils’ learning too much and this can limit the development of pupils’ independent learning skills. The school has begun to develop plans to ensure more carefully that pupils build their skills progressively during lessons and as they move from one year group to the next, but these are still at an early stage of development. Pupils enjoy coming to school and usually arrive well motivated and enthusiastic about learning. Despite this, overall rates of attendance remain a concern."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Ensure that the curriculum develops pupils’ skills systematically and progressively; (2) Provide pupils with meaningful opportunities to learn independently, particularly from Year 4 to Year 6; (3) Continue to improve attendance.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Maes Y Mynydd are Ysgol Hooson (under 0.1 miles), Ysgol Yr Hafod (0.8 miles), Penycae Community Primary School (1.1 miles) and Rhostyllen C.P. School (1.8 miles).

The nearest railway station is Ruabon Rail Station, about 2 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Sun Inn (after), 140 metres away.