Education
- Pontypridd County Intermediate and Technical School was built in 1895, later becoming Pontypridd County Grammar School for Boys on Tyfica Road. It later became the Coedylan Comprehensive School, and is now the Pontypridd High School in Cilfynydd on the west side of the A4054.
- Hawthorn High School is near the A4054 in Hawthorn (south-east of the town)
- Pontypridd Grammar School for Girls was on The Common in Glyntaff.
- Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School is on Penycoedcae Road in Beddau
- Cardinal Newman RC School is on Dynea Road in Rhydyfelin
- Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg is on the A473 in Church Village (south of the town)
- The University of Glamorgan (former Glamorgan Polytechnic) is in Treforest (south of the town), next to the A473
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