Dyffryn School

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Dyffryn Comprehensive is a split-site 11–16 years comprehensive school based in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.^[1] Dyffryn Comprehensive School is situated on two sites. Year 7 and 8 pupils are taught in the lower school on Broad Street in the centre of Port Talbot, whilst Years 9, 10 and 11 are taught at the site on Bertha Road in Margam. The lower school is built of red brick with a small tarmaced playing area. The upper school was demolished in 2017-2019 to make room for the playing fields of a new super-school. It opened in 1912 with around 200 students.

The final headmaster was Martin Grimes,^[2] who was the last headmaster of Dyffryn School before its closure in 2018.

In 2009, Dyffryn became the first in the county borough to offer a savings facility for its pupils.^[3] It had the only 'Interact club' in the area, where pupils think up ways to donate to charity, and choose charities to donate to.

Dyffryn was one of the only schools in the country borough to run a school Interact Club. Interact Club is the youth version of the Rotary Club. The Interact Club has raised thousands of pounds for local and international charities which the pupils themselves decide to support.

Between 2011 and 2012, the school was in band one of school rankings in Wales.

Dyffryn Comprehensive was well-known for its strict uniform policy, where students would wear mainly black colours with a green and black striped tie. The uniform policy had changed many times in Dyffryn's history, however the most notable change was the introduction of black blazers in the year 2016.

Dyffryn School closed in 2018 when it was replaced by a new super-school. The new super-school was built in the location of the late 'upper' school (after the 'upper' school's closure and demolition).

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