Gowerton Comprehensive School

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Gowerton Comprehensive School

Established:
Type:	comprehensive
Students:	1350(2005)
Location:	Swansea, Swansea County, United Kingdom
Colours:	Gowerton (dark) blue^[1]
Website:	http://www.gowerton.swansea.sch.uk/

Gowerton Comprehensive School or Gowerton Comp is a public secondary school located in the heart of Gowerton village, near Swansea.

The school in its present form was created in 1973 from the merger of Gowerton Girls' Grammar School and Gowerton Boys' Grammar School. The school has undergone three successful ESTYN inspections in 1994 , 2000 & 2005.

[edit] School Layout Design

The school has five main blocks A, B, C,D, E and F blocks. 'A' block is mainly used for English, French and many other language lessons with a small minority of Science class rooms. 'B' block is used for Maths, Science and D.T studies, 'C' block is used mainly for Arts and Humanities lessons, 'D' block is used for cooking and it also has some welsh classrooms and science classrooms. 'F' block is only used for science. 'E' block contains 2 maths classrooms, one R.E classroom and one History classroom. The new block(The new 'F' block) will be used for disabled people and science lessons. There is also a sports hall located to the South Eastern part of the school, however this is not classed as a block because it does not contain any classrooms.