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Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in the Cynon Valley in the village of Penywaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, to the northwest of the town of Aberdare. The school was established on 1 September 1995 to deal with the increasing numbers of students attending five local Welsh-medium primary schools, who previously had to ...
Aberdare Community School; Bryncelynnog Comprehensive School; Cardinal Newman R.C Comprehensive; Ferndale Community School; Mountain Ash Comprehensive; St. John Baptist C.I.W High School; Treorchy Comprehensive School; Y Pant Comprehensive School; Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun; Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhondda
Penywaun Primary School, near Coed Glas, educates approximately 252 pupils, aged 3 to 11. [4] Main secondary education schools are: Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun a Welsh Medium comprehensive school, serving the village since 1995. Aberdare Community School; St. John's The Baptist High School Of Aberdare.
It was the first Welsh language comprehensive school in the south of Wales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Attention was brought upon the school in 2009 with the revival of a campaign to retain the name of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen , for reasons of historical significance, in protest over the local council's decision to rename the school Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg .
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Ysgol Gyfun Cymer Rhondda was established in 1988 in response to the growing demand for Welsh-medium education in the area. It remains the only Welsh-medium secondary School in the Rhondda, with around 800 students. Pupils who attend the school come from all over the Rhondda, from five Welsh primary schools: Llyn-Y-Forwyn ; Ynyswen
A comprehensive school, or simply a comprehensive, typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.
The school's previous consortium, which consisted of Pontypridd High School, Hawthorn High School and Cardinal Newman RC School, was dissolved after the end of the 2012-13 school year. It was replaced by a different consortium with the inclusion on a new college in Nantgarw , Cardiff which is located 2.2 miles away.