Ysgol Maesteg School

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Ysgol Maesteg School
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Address
Ysgol Maesteg School
Ffordd Dysgu

Maesteg
,
Bridgend
,
CF34 0LQ

Wales
Coordinates 51°36′43″N3°39′08″W / 51.6120°N 3.6521°W / 51.6120; -3.6521 Coordinates: 51°36′43″N3°39′08″W / 51.6120°N 3.6521°W / 51.6120; -3.6521
Information
TypeComprehensive School
MottoMotivated to Strive
Established2008 (At the new site)
Local authority Bridgend
Department for Education URN 401791 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherHelen Jones
Age11 (year 7)to 19 (year13/14)
HousesCadrawd (Yellow), Daren(Green), Cynwyd(Red), Llynfi(Blue)
Colour(s)Black and Amber
Website maestegcs.bridgend.sch.uk

Ysgol Maesteg School is an English language comprehensive school situated in the town of Maesteg [1] in the South Wales Valleys of south-eastern Wales. The former and more commonly used name of the school is Maesteg Comprehensive School, or Ysgol Gyfun Maesteg. Its uniform shows the name as Ysgol Maesteg.

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As of September 2017, Maesteg Comprehensive School introduced a mobile phone ban to prevent cyberbullying and changed the uniform.

The school's old site was taken over by the newly established Welsh medium school, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd, on 3 September 2008 and has recently been downgraded from being a green rated school down 2 spaces to an amber. The school was rated band 2 (one of the higher performing schools in Wales) after being recently upgraded from band 3 as part of the Welsh governments school banding system, with over 55% of its pupils living in the 20% most deprived areas of Wales. [2] 42% of its students achieved 5 A*-C GCSEs including English or Welsh + Maths in 2010. [3]

As of 2020/2021, the school has 82.5% of students in the school on the ALN list.

The school was originally a split site, with a site at Llwynderw, which has since been demolished and is now a residential estate.

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References

  1. Welcome To Maesteg School
  2. Welsh Government | Secondary school banding Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. BBC News – The Welsh government school banding table revealed