Rhosnesni High School
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Rhosnesni High School is a high school created in 2003 by Wrexham County Borough council as a part of their controversial "super schools" plan. Three secondary schools are to be merged into two schools: Rhosnesni (formerly known as St. David's), and Ysgol Clywedog (formerly known as Bryn Offa). The third school, Groves, will be shut down entirely in 2005 after improvements to Rhosnesni and Ysgol Clywedog are complete.
The Welsh Assembly ratified the "super schools" plan in 2002, but the new schools were controversial. Nearby Yale College, which was to offset the some costs of the project by buying the Groves school and selling land, dropped out. Additionally, some parents opposed displacing students temporarily to Groves while modernizing the "super schools." In April 2002, a petition with over 1000 signatures was delieved to the Wrexham County council in protect of the plan.
By late 2003 it became apparent that the original £12 million budget for upgrades would fall short by about £10 million because inflation was not accounted for in estimates. Nonetheless, the county council approved overspends allowing the schools to be upgraded as planned. Both of the new schools will serve around 2500 pupils age 11 through 14.
Rhosnesni High School is in Wrexham, North Wales at a temporary site on Penymaes Avenue until it moves later in 2004 to its permanent site on Rhosnesni Lane.
External links
- BBC News: 'Super schools' (overspend) funding approved (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3301917.stm)
- BBC News: 'Super' schools plan given green light (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2386087.stm)