Gowerton School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Gowerton, Swansea, Wales.
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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 Boys' Grammar School.
Notable alumni and staff
Staff
Nia Griffith (born 1956), politician
Pupils
Dan Biggar (born 1989), rugby player
Tracy Edwards (born 1962), sailor
Huw Irranca-Davies (born 1963), politician
Steve Lovell (born 1960), footballer
Arun Midha (born 1964), academic
David Weatherley (born 1972), rugby player
Andy Williams (born 1981), rugby player
Liam Williams (born 1991), rugby player
Alumni of Gowerton Grammar School
John Bowen (1876–1965), trade unionist and politician
Willie Davies (1916–2002), rugby player
Haydn Tanner (1917–2002), rugby player
Onllwyn Brace (1932–2013), rugby player
Alun Talfan Davies (1913–2000), judge and publisher
Ifor Davies (1910–1982), politician
Islwyn Davies (1909–1981), priest
Roy Evans (1931–2010), trade unionist
Gwyn Francis (1896–1987), rugby player
Norman Gale (1939–2005), rugby player
Walter Glynne (1890–1970), opera singer
Bryan Grenfell (born 1954), biologist
Clive Griffiths (born 1954), rugby player
Rowe Harding (1901–1991), rugby player
Edwina Hart (born 1957), politician
Frederick Higginson: (1913–2003), flying ace
Alun Hoddinott (1929–2008), composer
Leighton James (1953–2024), footballer
Karl Jenkins (born 1944), composer
Lewis Jones (1931–2004), rugby player