Connah's Quay High School is a comprehensive secondary school

Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

 in Connah's Quay

Connah's Quay

Connah's Quay is the largest town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying on the River Dee, near the border with England. It can be accessed by road from the A550, by rail from the nearby Shotton station and also lies on the National Cycle Network Route 5. It is situated near the region's industrial...

, North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

. It is a non-selective, coeducational state school. Pupils are aged from 11 to 18, and in 2005 it had an enrollment of 893.

The school is part of the Deeside Consortium

Deeside Consortium

The Deeside Consortium is a local arrangement in Flintshire, North Wales between four schools:* John Summers High* Connah's Quay High in Connah's Quay* St David's High in Saltney* Flint High in Flint...

 which shares sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

 education and its Local Education Authority

Local Education Authority

A local education authority is a local authority in England and Wales that has responsibility for education within its jurisdiction...

 is Flintshire LEA

Flintshire Local Education Authority

Flintshire County Council is the Local Education Authority of Flintshire, north Wales. It runs 75 primary schools, 3 special schools and 12 high schools.Three of the schools have come together with Deeside College to form the Deeside Consortium....

.

A £2.3 million science and music wing was completed in October 2002, after a two-year project also involving extensions and redevelopment of the existing buildings. When Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Prince Andrew, Duke of York KG GCVO , is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

visited the school to declare the new block officially open, the opening ceremony was interrupted by a fire alarm caused by a hot tea urn..