Fitzalan High School

General information

Fitzalan High School is a large, co-educational, community comprehensive secondary school in Cardiff for students aged eleven to nineteen. The school is located in the Leckwith area of Canton in Cardiff, Wales. The school serves some areas which are economically disadvantaged. Over forty languages are spoken within the school community. In 2017 there were 1,721 pupils on roll including 334 in the sixth form.The school's catchment area covers Canton, Butetown, Grangetown, Riverside. Principal feeder schools are Kitchener, Radnor, Lansdowne, Severn Road, Ninian Park, St. Mary the Virgin, Grangetown and Mount Stuart.History – the originsFitzalan High School has links to Cardiff's first municipal secondary school at Howard Gardens, Adamsdown in 1884. The school later became Howardian High School and a Grammar School in 1941. Much of the school was subsequently destroyed by incendiary bombs in the Cardiff Blitz during the night of 3–4 March 1941 in World War II. The school's girls and boys relocated to newly built buildings, Lady Margaret High School for Girls (1948) and Howardian High School for Boys (1953), in Penylan.After the war the building at Howard Gardens was partially repaired. A new technical school was opened in September 1953 with around 200 boys. It was officially named ‘Fitzalan Technical High School’ in December 1953.