St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint - 01352 736900

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School is a Catholic comprehensive school serving the population of Flintshire in North Wales. It was founded in 1954 to serve the Catholic population of Flintshire. It is a nationally recognised forward looking 11 – 18 school with excellent records of achievement at all levels.It is one of three Catholic secondary schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham, the others being St Joseph's Catholic & Anglican High School, Wrexham and Blessed Edward Jones RC High School, Rhyl.It is a mixed school, currently serving close to 1000 pupils (including a mixed sixth form of over 120). It draws its pupils and students from the Roman Catholic parishes of Flint, Holywell, Queensferry, Mold, Saltney, Buckley, Connah's Quay, Hawarden and Pantasaph.The most recent 2008 Estyn and Diocesan Inspections quotes:"This is an Outstanding Catholic School", "Outstanding pupil motivation and behaviour", "Outstanding pastoral care, respect for diversity and working relationships", "Outstanding leadership and management", "Outstanding GCSE results", "Outstanding working relationship with parents" "We haven't seen such an entire school behaving so well before" (Inspector comment)

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