Ysgol Plas Coch, Wrexham

Ysgol Plas Coch 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 322 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

14% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 5% have additional learning needs (11% in 2020/21); and 3% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 30 pupils (Year 5) to 45 (Year 1).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £4,629 per pupil, against £3,668 in 2021-22. It carried forward £175k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its June 2022 inspection summarises Ysgol Plas Coch like this:

"The headteacher and other leaders at Ysgol Plas Coch succeed in realising their vision to provide a caring, supportive, happy and safe environment for pupils. This in turn allows nearly all pupils to develop their self-confidence and self-discipline. They are supported effectively by dedicated teachers and support staff who support pupils to develop a range of skills soundly in a proud Welsh environment. As a result, nearly all pupils make good progress. Nearly all pupils show a positive attitude towards learning. They are well behaved and enjoy contributing to lessons. Many become increasingly independent learners during their time at the school, develop strong co-operation skills and persevere with tasks."

"They develop their literacy skills well, although a few pupils do not speak Welsh consistently in classes and informal situations. As teachers experiment and refine their approaches to dealing with the Curriculum for Wales, they provide an increasing range of stimulating and interesting activities based on real-life experiences. For example, pupils develop good numeracy and digital skills by taking part in tasks based on recent off-site visits. Throughout the whole school, teachers use a range of effective teaching methods to help pupils gain a full understanding of the themes that they are covering. They ask probing questions and give pupils valuable oral and written feedback and provide valuable opportunities for pupils to enrich their own work. They support pupils’ individual needs well, for example by providing beneficial additional sessions for pupils who have been identified as having additional learning needs (ALN). Ysgol Plas Coch is federated with another local primary school, Ysgol Bro Alun."

"They share the same governing body and the same headteacher, who divides his time between both sites. The governing body discharges its duties diligently, for example by conducting site visits, and governors have a sound understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for development. As a federation, leaders take advantage of a few opportunities to co-operate, for example when senior leaders evaluate lessons and standards in books across both sites. However, leaders do not always consider the findings of their monitoring activities incisively enough when planning for improvement. Beyond senior leader level, the federation arrangement does not have much of an effect on the day-to-day running of the school."

Estyn made 2 recommendations: (1) Strengthen strategic planning processes and prioritise the most important steps to improve pupils’ outcomes; (2) Encourage pupils to speak Welsh regularly in formal and informal situations.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Plas Coch are Rhosddu Primary School (0.4 miles), Wat's Dyke C.P. School (0.5 miles), Acton Primary (0.9 miles) and Alexandra C.P. School (0.9 miles).

The nearest railway station is Wrexham General Rail Station, about 890 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stansty Nursing Home (near), 150 metres away.