Editing Cowbridge (section)

==Schools==
[[Cowbridge Grammar School]] (founded 1608, closed 1974) was merged with other local schools to form Cowbridge Comprehensive School in 1973–4. The disused main building on Town Mill Road was converted to residences in 2006-8 and its associated prefabricated classrooms replaced by housing in 2013.

[[Cowbridge Girls School]], (previously known as Cowbridge Intermediate School for Girls) was built in 1896 and was the first school for girls built in Wales after the Welsh Intermediate Education Act (1889) provided for state-funding of education for all children. It included a hostel for boarders (funded by philanthropist John Bevan, a Cowbridge solicitor) so that girls could attend from a wider area.<ref name="B_PCGEM2020">{{cite web |title=0 Post a comment A look at the history of Cowbridge Girls School |url=https://www.bridgend-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=131755&headline=A%20look%20at%20the%20history%20of%20Cowbridge%20Girls%20School&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020 |website=The Bridgend and Porthcawl GEM |access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="Old Girls School Wales - report">{{cite web |last1=Scourfield |first1=Rob |title=FORMER COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, ABERTHIN ROAD, COWBRIDGE - AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL APPRAISAL |url=https://oldgirlsschool.wales/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Scourfield-2019-Cowbridge-School-Report-1.pdf |website=Old Girls School Wales}}</ref> The school building was designed by Robert Williams. It was built from  dressed limestone in a [[Scottish baronial architecture|baronial style]]. It was extended in 1909, designed by Rhys S. Griffiths to match with the original building and this included a science laboratory, gym and more hostel accommodation as well as additional classrooms.<ref name="Old Girls School Wales">{{cite web |title=The History of the First Girls' Intermediate School in Wales |url=http://oldgirlsschool.wales/school/ |website=Old Girls School Wales |access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="Rideout2022">{{cite news |last1=Rideout |first1=Joanne |title=Victorian school under threat of demolition could be transformed into flats, says heritage charity |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/victorian-school-under-threat-demolition-23061618 |access-date=25 March 2022 |work=WalesOnline |date=11 February 2022}}</ref> At the formation of Cowbridge Comprehensive School in 1973-4 its building was used for the sixth form. When new buildings meant the whole school could be brought together on one site, it was unused after 2010. Proposals to demolish the building, or alternatively convert it and surrounding space to new housing, were made between 2018 and 2020.<ref name="Rideout2022" /> A request for it to be listed by [[Cadw]] was rejected because of lack of distinctiveness in the building and some modern alterations.<ref name="PrivateEyeMarch2022">{{cite news |title=Nooks and Crannies |work=Private Eye |issue=15568 |date=17 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="Old Girls School Wales" />

=== Secondary Schools ===
[[Cowbridge Comprehensive School]] is an English-medium secondary school. As of 2021, the school had approximately 1528 pupils.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cowbridge Comprehensive School |url=https://mylocalschool.gov.wales/School/6734065?lang=en |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=mylocalschool.gov.wales}}</ref> It is one of the best performing [[secondary school]]s in Wales. It achieved 94% A*-C at GCSE in 2010. The school was located on three sites, with the Lower School in the south-west of the town and Middle School and [[Sixth Form]] in the north-east. Cowbridge Comprehensive School completed a major redevelopment in September 2010 to bring the entire school to one site (the former Middle School/Sixth Form site) using [[Welsh Assembly Government]] funding.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/errors/notfound.aspx|title=Welsh Assembly Government|website=www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk|access-date=16 April 2021|archive-date=1 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301074455/https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/errors/notfound.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2010, the new school was officially opened to students. All students can now be found on the one site, instead of the three separate buildings that were all situated in different locations in Cowbridge. The former sixth form site on Aberthin Road is now derelict and awaiting redevelopment.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pyke|first1=Chris|title=The grand derelict buildings currently for sale in Wales|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/commercial-property/grand-derelict-buildings-currently-sale-14508193|website=Wales Online| date=11 April 2018 }}</ref>

=== Primary Schools ===
Y Bontfaen Primary School is an English-medium school situated in Borough Close. As of 2021, it has a roll of 279 pupils.

Ysgol Iolo Morganwg is a [[Welsh-medium education|Welsh-medium]] school situated in Broadway. As of June 2022, there were 203 pupils on roll, with 73.4% coming from Welsh-speaking homes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ysgol Iolo Morganwg {{!}} Estyn |url=https://www.estyn.gov.wales/provider/6732165 |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=www.estyn.gov.wales |language=en}}</ref>