St. Helen’s Catholic Infant and Nursery School is in the centre of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. It serves a wide catchment area of over 10 miles and pupils come from parishes in Barry, Llantwit Major and Cowbridge. There are just under 180 pupils aged three to seven years at the school, including 42 children who attend the nursery part time. There are four single-aged classes and one mixed-age class, plus a nursery class in the morning and afternoon. Around 12% of pupils are entitled to free school meals. This is below the average for primary schools in the local authority and in Wales. The school has identified about 20% of pupils as having additional learning needs. This is around the average for primary schools in Wales. No pupil has a statement of special educational needs. A very few pupils are looked after by the local authority. Pupils’ ethnicity is largely white British (75%). The remainder are mainly Asian or of mixed ethnicity. Just over 20% of pupils speak English as an additional language. No pupil speaks Welsh as a first language at home. The last inspection was in November 2007. The headteacher was appointed in 1990. The individual school budget per pupil for St Helen's Catholic Infant and Nursery in 2013-2014 means that the budget is £3,728 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan is £7,758 and the minimum is £2,718. St Helen's Catholic Infant and Nursery is 14th out of the 48 primary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan in terms of its school budget per pupil.