Trevethin Community School () was a non-selective state

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in the

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Penygarn Pen-y-garn may refer to: * Pen y Garn - a mountain in Ceredigion *Penygarn, Torfaen - a village in Torfaen, in the ward of St Cadocs/Penygarn, Wales * Pen-y-garn, Ceredigion - a village in Ceredigion, Wales *Pen-y-garn - a former farm near Llanpum ...

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. The school—established in 1982 as Trevethin Comprehensive School—was originally housed on two sites, the former Pontypool Girls'

Grammar School A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a Latin school, school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented Se ...

building and the former Trevethin Secondary Modern School, which is now the

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-language school

Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw is a Welsh language, Welsh-medium all-age school located in Trevethin, Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales and named for Saint Gwynllyw. The school had 781 pupils on roll in 2024. The school changed its name from ''Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw'' to ''Ysgol Gym ...

. This was until 1991, when years 7 and 8 moved to the former girls' school in Penygarn, uniting the school on one site and making way for the Welsh-language school. The school suffered from declining pupil numbers in its last years and closed in the summer of 2007. The remaining pupils were relocated to either

Abersychan Comprehensive School Abersychan School is an English-medium 11-16 co-educational comprehensive school in the Pontypool suburb of Abersychan, Wales. Admissions As of 2024, Abersychan School had 759 pupils on roll. It serves the north of Torfaen including the communiti ...

West Monmouth School West Monmouth School (Welsh: ''Ysgol Gorllewin Mynwy''; colloquially: West Mon) is a state-funded and non-selective secondary school in Pontypool, Torfaen, south Wales. Admissions Pupils who attend the school generally live in the Torfaen area. ...

. Many residents of

Trevethin Trevethin or Trefethin () is a suburb of Pontypool and a community in Torfaen, Wales. It includes two electoral wards (Trevethin and St Cadocs and Penygarn) for Torfaen County Borough Council. It is in the historic county of Monmouthshire. His ...

were bitter about the school's closure and fought hard to keep it open, but to no avail.

itself is an economically deprived district of

and this influenced the school's fate.

References

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