Ysgol Bryn Elian is an 11 - 18 bilingual co-educational Comprehensive school on Windsor Drive in Old Colwyn. Along with Eirias High School and Coleg Llandrillo Cymru (which is sixth-form-level only) it serves the state secondary education sector in the Colwyn Bay area. The school has been in existence since the 1970s, when it was initially created as a Secondary modern school to accept those unable to get into the town's Grammar school, Eirias High School. In the mid-seventies, the Secretary of State for Education ordered both schools to become comprehensives.