Cwmtawe

Cwmtawe Community School Formerly known as Pontardawe Technical School and Cwmtawe Comprehensive School, is a modern, English-medium education comprehensive school situated in Pontardawe, South Wales.The school moved to newly built premises in 1996, its old building was being used by the local Welsh-language primary school, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pontardawe, until it was demolished in 2010. Cwmtawe recently won an eco-schools award for environmentally friendly schools, which is based on school improvements, community and curriculum links as well as saving money and raising awareness. Although Cwmtawe is not a Welsh-medium school, Welsh is taught at second-language level, as it is mandatory under the National Curriculum that all Welsh school children up to the age of 16 be taught the language.Cwmtawe has very good Key Stage 3 and GCSE results that exceed the targets set in the national standard for Wales. In 2000 the school was in 113th place in Wales for GCSE passes . Since then, however, examination results have improved dramatically and according to the latest inspection report by Estyn the school has a GCSE pass rate of 73%, putting it in equal 12th place in Wales.