Mae gwerthusiad annibynnol o’r Grant  a wnaed y llynedd yn dangos fod llawer o ysgolion yn gweld y cyllid yma’n ‘amhrisiadwy’, gyda thystiolaeth bellach gan Sir Alasdair MacDonald, eiriolwr codi cyrhaeddiad ar ran Estyn a Llywodraeth Cymru, sy’n dangos fod y mwyafrif o ysgolion yn gwneud penderfyniadau doeth ar sut i wario’r cyllid.
An independent evaluation of the PDG last year found that many schools consider the funding to be ‘invaluable’, with further evidence from Estyn and the Welsh Government’s raising attainment advocate, Sir Alasdair MacDonald, showing the majority of schools are making well thought out decisions on how to spend the funding.