Queen Street Primary School is in Abertillery in the Blaenau Gwent local authority. There are 131 pupils aged three to eleven on roll. This includes around 19 pupils in the part-time nursery class. Pupils are generally taught in single-aged classes, with the exception of Year 3 and Year 4 pupils who are in a mixed-age class. Around 51% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is well above the average for Wales (20%). The school identifies around 27% of pupils with additional learning needs. No pupil has a statement of special educational needs. At the time of the inspection, around 6% of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds and approximately half of these pupils are new to English. In September 2013, the headteacher took up her post as head of two schools, Queen Street Primary and a neighbouring primary school. The acting deputy headteacher of the two schools took up her substantive post of deputy headteacher in September 2015. The deputy headteacher is non-teaching. The school’s last inspection was in November 2009. The individual school budget per pupil for Queen Street Primary School in 2015-2016 means that the budget is £4,545 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Blaenau Gwent is £4,874 and the minimum is £3,597. Queen Street Primary School is seventh out of the 23 primary schools in Blaenau Gwent in terms of its school budget per pupil.