Ysgol Min-Y-Ddol, Wrexham

Ysgol Min-Y-Ddol 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 132 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

21% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Year groups range from 11 pupils (Year 5) to 20 (Reception).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £4,765 per pupil, against £4,019 in 2021-22. It carried forward £22k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its May 2022 inspection summarises Ysgol Min-Y-Ddol like this:

"Leaders, staff and pupils succeed in developing an environment where nearly all pupils enjoy and feel safe at school and are valued and respected. The school developed good ideas to support pupils’ wellbeing during the pandemic, by strengthening their emotional resilience and reigniting their interest in fitness. Most pupils have good attitudes to learning, work respectfully with each other and adults and are willing to persevere with their work. One of the school’s clear strengths is the way that it provides stimulating and interesting learning experiences that engage most pupils’ interest effectively. The school’s significant investment in equipment and resources to create appealing and stimulating outdoor areas ensures excellent opportunities for pupils to engage in their learning."

"Many pupils make good progress in their learning during their time at the school, but there is scope to improve their writing and numeracy skills. Pupils’ oral Welsh skills are good and the work of teachers and staff to support this is sound. The school is focussing well on preparing for the new Curriculum for Wales and making beneficial considerations to improve pedagogy. Teachers and staff plan interesting lessons and activities for pupils and encourage pupils’ enthusiasm and thinking skills successfully. However, there is room to strengthen the feedback that they provide for pupils so that they know how to improve, and to challenge all pupils appropriately."

"The school has a good record of making beneficial improvements and leaders ensure that they gather a good range of evidence so that they know what works well and what to improve for the future. Sharpening self-evaluation arrangements to scrutinise pupils’ standards more would strengthen the process, in addition to developing methods to evaluate progress against the targets that have been set by the school. Report on Ysgol Min-y-Ddol"

Estyn made 4 recommendations: (1) Strengthen pupils’ writing and numeracy skills, particularly at the top of the school; (2) Strengthen the feedback that teachers give to pupils so that they can improve their work more effectively; (3) Ensure that learning activities challenge pupils in line with their ability, particularly for more able pupils; (4) Improve self-evaluation practices in order to evaluate pupils’ standards and develop more effective methods to evaluate progress against targets for improvement.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Min-Y-Ddol are Cefn Mawr Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Ysgol Acrefair (0.8 miles), Rhosymedre Community Primary School (0.9 miles) and Froncysyllte C.P. School (1 mile).

The nearest railway station is Ruabon Rail Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Heol Berwyn (after), 90 metres away.