Ysgol Maesteg School
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.
| Ysgol Maesteg School | |
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| Address | |
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Ffordd Dysgu Maesteg , Bridgend , CF34 0LQ Wales | |
| Coordinates | 51°36′43″N 3°39′08″W |
| Information | |
| Type | Comprehensive School |
| Motto | Motivated to Strive |
| Established | 2008 (At the new site) |
| Local authority | Bridgend |
| Department for Education URN | 401791 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Helen Jones |
| Age | 11 (year 7) to 19 (year13/14) |
| Houses | Cadrawd (Yellow), Daren(Green), Cynwyd(Red), Llynfi(Blue) |
| Colour(s) | Black and Amber |
| Website | maestegcs |
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.