to other parishes, Bedwellty, Mynyddislwyn and St Ilans and more and more in the late 19th century to girls of those parishes. The school is associated with Lewis' School for girls originally opened in Hengoed near Pengam in November 1900 but later moved to a new, larger facility in the town of Ystrad Mynach. Once again Lewis School Pengam became a boys' school, hence, since there were now separate Lewis schools for boys and girls, local people started to refer to the Pengam school as "Lewis' Boys" which was much frowned on by successive headmasters and staff. 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 years 12 and 13. Two other nearby schools, Heolddu Comprehensive School and Rhymney Comprehensive School, are also included in this consortium. Both institutions during their times as grammar schools were renowned for consistently excellent standards of education and the high attainments of many of their pupils. In 1986 the school was criticised by STOPP for its use of corporal punishment (caning), after an inspectors' report stated that 60 out of 360 boys in the lower school had been caned in the course of one year. Trivia Once described by David Lloyd George as "the Eton College of the Valleys". Notable former staff Alfred Evans (politician), headmaster, 1966–1968 Alun Lewis (poet), teacher David Wynne (composer), teacher Notable old Ludovicans Wayne C Jenkins, Rugby Player, teacher and family man Paul Atherton, television and film producer Ray Bishop, footballer (Brighton, Cardiff and Newport County) Mervyn Burtch, composer Douglas Davies, theologian John Dawes, international rugby union player Bradley Dredge, professional golfer, European Tour winner Geoff Eales, jazz musician Iorwerth Evans, rugby player Jonathan Evans, politician Jonathan Evans, rugby player George Fisher, dramatist, director Julian Hodge, financier Peter Hubbard-Miles, politician E. John Hughes, diplomat and former H.M. Ambassador to Argentina. Berwyn Jones, athlete, rugby player Humphrey Owen Jones, chemist and mountaineer Morgan Jones, politician and conscientious objector Thomas Jones, civil servant, academic and founder of Coleg Harlech Geoffrey Thomas, pastor Neil Kinnock, politician W. John Morgan, academic, Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner, and Chair of the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO. Rev. Frederick A. G. Mudge, former Minor Canon at Llandaff Cathedral, Rector