Abertysswg Primary School is a community school in the village of Abertysswg in the upper Rhymney valley. The local authority is Caerphilly County Borough Council. The village is a former mining community in a predominately rural area. The majority of children attending the school come from the village. There are currently 108 pupils on roll, aged 3-11 years, plus 17 part-time nursery children, who attend school for the morning session only. There are five classes, and most have children from more than one year group. The nursery and reception children are taught together. All pupils are white British and nearly all pupils come from English-speaking homes. The school has identified about 26% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This percentage is above the local authority and national averages. Twenty-four per cent are eligible for free school meals, which is above the average for the local authority and Wales. The headteacher was appointed in an acting capacity in 2013, having previously been the school’s deputy headteacher. The school was last inspected in November 2007. The individual school budget per pupil for Abertysswg Primary School in 2013-2014 means that the budget is £3,089 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Caerphilly is £5,118 and the minimum is £2,645. Abertysswg Primary School is 42nd out of the 75 primary schools in Caerphilly in terms of its school budget per pupil.