Trevethin Community School was a non-selective state secondary school

Secondary school

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 in the Pontypool

Pontypool

Pontypool is a town of approximately 36,000 people in the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales....

 suburb

Suburb

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 of Penygarn, Wales

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.

The school—established in 1982 as Trevethin Comprehensive School—was originally housed on two sites, the former Pontypool Girls' Grammar School

Grammar school

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 building and the former Trevethin Secondary Modern School , which is now the Welsh

Welsh language

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-language school Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw

Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw

' is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school located in Trevethin, Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales and named for Saint Gwynllyw.- History :The school was founded in 1988 as the first Welsh-medium school in the former Gwent LEA area and is housed in accommodation previously used for Trevethin Comprehensive...

. This was until 1991, when years 7 and 8 moved to the former girls' school in Penygarn, uniting the school on one site and making way for the Welsh-language school.

The school suffered from declining pupil numbers in its last years and closed in the summer of 2007. The remaining pupils were relocated to either Abersychan Comprehensive School

Abersychan Comprehensive School

Abersychan Comprehensive School is a state-funded and non-selective comprehensive school in the Pontypool suburb of Abersychan, Wales.-Admissions:Abersychan School has over 930 pupils on roll...

 or West Monmouth School

West Monmouth School

West Monmouth School is a state-funded and non-selective secondary school in Pontypool, Torfaen, south Wales.-Admissions:Pupils who attend the generally live in the Pontypool area...

. Many residents of Trevethin

Trevethin

Trevethin is a community of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales.-History and amenities:It is a modern suburb, built around a small village in the 1960s and '70s and is all but merged with nearby Penygarn. In 2005 it was announced that the district's local school, Trevethin Community School, was to close....

 were bitter about the school's closure and fought hard to keep it open, but to no avail. Trevethin

Trevethin

Trevethin is a community of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales.-History and amenities:It is a modern suburb, built around a small village in the 1960s and '70s and is all but merged with nearby Penygarn. In 2005 it was announced that the district's local school, Trevethin Community School, was to close....

 itself is an economically deprived district of Pontypool

Pontypool

Pontypool is a town of approximately 36,000 people in the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales....

and this has had an impact on the school's fate.