Gowerton Comprehensive School
Gowerton School is a secondary school located in Gowerton, near Swansea, Wales. History. Intermediate School. The school opened on 5 October 1896 in Talbot Street as a co-educational Intermediate school under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889. Later it became Gowerton County School administered by the local (county) authority. Grammar school. In May 1940, the Talbot Street school became a boys' grammar school when a girls' grammar school opened on "Cecil Road". Comprehensive. The school in its present form was created in 1973 from the merger of Gowerton Girls' Grammar School and Gowerton Boys' Grammar School . The Upper School was at "Cecil Road" and the Middle School was on "Talbot Road". In 1987 the school was centralised on the "Cecil Road" (former girls' school) site. Gowerton School today serves pupils from the north and west of the Gower peninsula and from the Swansea suburbs of Gowerton, Waunarlwydd and Dunvant from age 11 to 18, with a successful sixth form specialising in A level and Welsh Baccalaureate courses. ESTYN inspections in 1994, 2000, 2005, 2011 and 2017 have been consistently good. The 2011 inspection report under the new Welsh inspection framework noted the school's outstanding ethos , inspiring leadership, good performance and excellent prospects, with high academic expectations and achievements, excellent care for pupil welfare and sector leading use of ICT in teaching. In July 2013, parents supported boys wearing skirts as they had not been permitted to wear school shorts or to roll their trousers up during particularly hot summer weather. Location. The school is located off Cecil Road in Gowerton. Opposite the school's entrance on Park Road is Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr, a Welsh speaking school that used to house the Boy's Grammar School. School layout. The school is large compared to other secondary  schools in the UK. It has three main blocks, a block consisting of demountable buildings and an additional block. In addition to the main blocks there are also the tennis courts, two playing fields and a redgra adjacent to F Block and C Block.