School History

The 1847 report on Welsh education noted a school in a dwelling house in Whitland, described as “a small mud walled miserable hut” which was kept by an infirm old man, where a small number of pupils were taught. Doubtless this master was Job Rees listed in the 1841 Census. 
The state system was inaugrated in 1870 and Whitland Primary School was opened in 1875 as Llanboidy and Llangan Board School. The same building, with extensions, is still in use. 
In 1896, following the Welsh Intermediate Education Act (1889), the town gained a mixed secondary school for 100 pupils. Subsequent expansion and re-building, and the change to grammar and now comprehensive, reflect the history of secondary education in this period. 
Whitland was the last grammar school in Wales. 
Dyffryn Taf Comprehensive was established in 1989 as a result of the reorganisation of secondary education in the Narberth/Whitland/St Clears area and the closure of Whitland Grammar School and Ysgol Gruffydd Jones. 
Dyffryn Taf is located on the site of the old Whitland Grammar School. The oldest part of the school is the 1896 block. The original school has been added to over the years with extensions built in 1908, 1960s, 1970s, 1989/90 (English/Welsh/Library), 1991/92 (Technology), 1993/94 (PE area) and more recently 2000 (The new Maths Block). 
The school is set in some fourteen acres of playing fields (recently drained) which provide an impressive play area for our pupils and allows for a wide range of sporting activities.

(Taken from the Whitland & Dyffryn Taf websites.)