- Denbigh High School (Denbigh)
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Denbigh High School 
Established 1922 Headmaster Mr. Simeon Malloy Location Ruthin Road
Denbigh
Denbighshire
LL16 3EX
WalesLocal authority Denbigh Staff approx 60 Students 856 Gender Coeducational Ages 11–18 Website denbighhighschool.co.uk Coordinates: 53°11′07″N 3°24′23″W / 53.1852°N 3.4065°W
Denbigh High School (Welsh: Ysgol Uwchradd Dinbych) is an English medium county comprehensive school in Denbigh.
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Overview
It is situated on Ruthin Road, Denbigh in North Wales and caters for approximately 850 pupils from the ages of 11 to 18.. The school is the only mainstream English/Welsh High School in the area where the next nearest is Rhyl High and Blessed Edwards (also in Rhyl).
Most of the school children come from Denbigh, St Asaph, Ruthin, Rhyl and the surrounding area. The school has an annual sponsored walk, held in early September. It is a 13.5 kilometre walk around the Clwydian Range. The walk is used to raise funds for the school.
The school was originally situated on two separate sites with the first 3 years on the existing site and the older years at an older building on Middle Lane, which is situated half a mile away. This Middle Lane site was built in 1903 as The County School and Denbigh High ceased using it in 1983. The site then became a Youth Club and is used for Teacher Training and Education Administration.
Denbigh High School also shares its site with Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn, a special needs school catering mainly to pupils with autism and Asperger syndrome, as well as a smaller number of students diagnosed as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy and dyspraxia. This unit has its own, self-contained science laboratory, design-technology workshop, ICT department and Life Learning (cookery) kitchen. The building is roughly shaped like a capital letter G, and is divided into five corridors, each separated from the next by a magnetically-locking set of doors (opened with a magnetic key-fob). This building forms the senior department of Brondyffryn; the junior department is located near Ysgol Frongoch, and was reconstructed shortly following the senior department.
Heads
As of 2011 the Headmaster is Simeon Malloy. Previous Headmasters include: Alison Duncan, Bill Bailey, Gwyn Dodd, Maurice Bitcon.
Special Education partnership
The school has a longstanding partnership with Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn, a special education school serving children with autism. In 2003 a new Secondary Dept. of Brondyffryn was built behind Denbigh High, and caters for 56 youngsters from throughout North and Mid Wales along with parts of Cheshire and Liverpool. The project increases integration between some autistic teenagers and youngsters from the local comprehensive. In 2004, the first full-time transfer from Brondyffryn to Denbigh High took place, and since then there have been several more transitions to full-time mainstream education.[1]
Controversy
In September 2009, Maths teacher at the school, Ian Gee, was suspended and later fired from the school when images of child pornography were found on a computer at his home. Investigators found no evidence to suggest criminal activity had taken place on school premises or during school hours.[2]
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Categories:- Secondary schools in Wales
- Schools in Denbighshire
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