 It also changed its category to a Voluntary aided school (church) school.Ponthir has many amenities such as two nurseries, two children's playgrounds, two churches, a village hall, a cricket club, a football club (Ponthir AFC), 2 pubs - The Ponthir House and The Star, a grocery shop, a doctor and a dentist.There used to be a railway station but it closed in 1962.