Abertillery Learning Community is an

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Abertillery Abertillery (; cy, Abertyleri) is a town and a community of the Ebbw Fach valley in the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales. Following local government reorganisation it became part of the Blaenau Gwent County Borough administrative area. ...

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. The school was formed by merging several schools in 2016. Abertillery Comprehensive School was originally opened in 1986, on a former colliery site. This school was merged with four local

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s. As of 2020, the school's most recent

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inspection was in 2018, with a judgement that the school needs significant improvement. In 2019, the school was undergoing a review of teaching, with some posts likely to be cut; at this point the school had had three headteachers in two years.

List of campuses

*Secondary Campus - Abertillery Learning Community *Tillery Street Primary Campus *Roseheyworth Road Millenium Primary Campus *Six Bells Primary Campus

Former campuses

*Queen Street Primary Campus *Bryngwyn Road Primary Campus

References

External links

* Secondary schools in Blaenau Gwent Educational institutions established in 1986 1986 establishments in Wales

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