190:"That they in the first place out of the profits of the Wood and premises Build a School near the Church of the value of forty pounds And also every year after the Building of the said School that my said Trustees pay to a School Master yearly out of the rents and profits of the said premises the sume of ten pounds per annum and likewise that my said Trustees lay out fifteen pounds yearly for Coats and Caps for fifteen poor Boys of the said parish to be taught by the said Master to Read write and cast Accompt, And the rest of the profits for the improving that Charity for the use of the said Master and Boys",
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The building currently occupied by the school was opened in 2002, in
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Both schools became comprehensive schools under subsequent educational reform. Lewis School Pengam remains an all-male school until the end of year 11, as Lewis Girls' School remains an all-female school until the end of year 11. However, both schools share a mixed-gender 6th Form
Consortium for
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Lewis' School was originally a school for boys founded in a time when girls rarely received an education so no distinction of gender was needed in its title which was simply Lewis' School. So from modest beginnings the school was moved and enlarged, 1848, later to become a grammar school, though
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