Newport High School () is a co-educational secondary school in the Bettws district of the city of Newport,

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, UK for pupils aged 11–18 years.

Admissions

There are about 1,100 pupils from a catchment area to the north western side of Newport.

History

The school's origin can be dated back to the foundation in 1896 of separate Boys' and Girls' intermediate schools in Newport. Subsequently the High School name was adopted. Following the implementation of

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the school(s) eventually moved from Queen's Hill to Bettws Lane. The current school of 2009 was built in front of the old Bettws Comprehensive School, itself built in 1970. The latter's school plot was sold to

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for demolition and house building. On 7 January 2025, the school went into lockdown after a former pupil entered the school and attacked three teachers, causing one of them to be hospitalised.

Academic performance

The school's most recent

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inspection took place in 2008. This report was in quick succession to an inspection during November 2007. The 2007 report noted the school's improvements, particularly in GCSE results, since the previous inspection in 2001, but recommended that significant further improvement was necessary. The 2008 report concluded that "significant improvement" had been made and the school was placed back into the standard inspection cycle.

Alumni

Newport High School for Boys

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Cyril Bence Cyril Raymond Bence (26 November 1902 – 7 September 1992) was a Welsh toolmaker, part-time lecturer and politician. Earlier career Bence was born near Bristol, the son of a farmer and meat purveyor. He went to school in Newport, Monmouthsh ...

, Labour MP from 1951 to 1970 for

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* Richard Bradshaw, Director General from 1977 to 1981 of the

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, and Commandant from 1973 to 1975 of the RAMC Training Centre * Trevor Brewer, rugby player * David Burcher, rugby player * Graham Dixon-Lewis, professor of combustion science from 1978 to 1987 at the

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* Gareth L Evans rugby union player * John Evans (rugby union, born 1911) *

Raymond Glendenning Raymond Carl Glendenning (25 September 1907 – 23 February 1974) was a BBC radio sports commentator and occasional character actor. Early years Glendenning was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, son of Robert James Samuel Glendenning, a c ...

, sports commentator * Peter Gray, professor of

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from 1962 to 1988 at the

, master from 1988 to 1996 of

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, and president from 1983 to 1985 of the

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, professor of laryngology and otology from 1963 to 1990 at

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, and expert on

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* Walter Martin (rugby union) *

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Newport High School for Girls

* Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn * Alison Bielski, poet and writer.

References

External links

School homepage
{{authority control Secondary schools in Newport, Wales