Bryngwyn Primary School is close to Abertillery and serves the community of Six Bells and the surrounding area in the Blaenau Gwent local authority. Currently, there are 243 pupils on the school roll including 46 part-time children in the nursery. Pupils are taught in eight classes, most of which contain pupils from a single year group. The school also has a special needs resource base for up to 9 pupils from within the local authority. The school has identified 57 pupils (14%) as having additional learning needs. Around 18% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is slightly below the Wales average. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language. A very few receive support for English as a second language. Most pupils are of white British ethnicity. The school was last inspected in 2008. In September 2013, the headteacher was appointed head of two schools, Bryngwyn Primary school and a neighbouring primary school. The individual school budget per pupil for Bryngwyn Primary in 2013-2014 means that the budget is £4,090 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Blaenau Gwent is £6,278 and the minimum is £3,497. Bryngwyn Primary is 16th out of the 25 primary schools in Blaenau Gwent in terms of its school budget per pupil.