Aside from the nomenclature "Ysgol David Hughes" (now located in Menai Bridge) there is a continuity from the 1603 school to the current iteration, which is described below.

Hughes later lived in Norfolk and used his good fortune to build a 'considerable estate in money which afterwards hee left in his last Will & Testament for the Founding & Endowing of a Free School & Hospitall in & near Bowmaris [sic]'.

Hughes procured a building in Beaumaris which was converted and opened as a Free Grammar School in 1603.

He also laid down the terms on which "fellowships" (scholarships) should be established to enable deserving pupils to proceed directly from Beaumaris to the University of Oxford.

When plans were announced to move the entire school away from Beaumaris to Menai Bridge there was considerable opposition from the people of Beaumaris to what they considered to be the arbitrary closure of their old school and the end of the centuries-old tradition of secondary education in the town.