Porth Junior School is in the town of Porth in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf. There are 111 pupils aged seven to 11 years at the school. The school has four mixed-age classes. Around 28% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is well above the local and national averages. Nearly all pupils are of white British ethnicity and come from homes where English is the main language. No pupils speak Welsh as a first language. The school identifies that around 23% of pupils have additional learning needs. Currently, no pupils have a statement of special educational needs and no pupil is looked after by the local authority. The previous inspection of the school was in April 2008 when the school was judged to be in need of significant improvement. Estyn re-visited the school in July 2009 and judged that the school had made sufficient progress and no longer required significant improvement. The current headteacher has been in post since February 2014. Prior to this, she was acting headteacher at the school for two years. The individual school budget per pupil for Porth Junior School in 2013-2014 means that the budget is £3,734 per pupil. The maximum per pupil in the primary schools in Rhondda Cynon Taf is £7,033 and the minimum is £2,659. Porth Junior School is 46th out of the 110 primary schools in Rhondda Cynon Taf in terms of its school budget per pupil.