Hawick High School is a non-denominational secondary school in

Hawick Hawick ( ; sco, Haaick; gd, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east of Selkirk. It is one ...

, in the Scottish Borders. As well as serving the town, it also takes in pupils from as far away as

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History

The first mention of educational provision in the area was in the 17th century. The first evidence of a specific school was in 1711 when Hawick Grammar School was established by Reverend Alexander Orrock although the building was not actually completed until 1732. The school combined with a nearby elementary school in 1824 and a new school was completed two years later. This school proved too small and another school was built in 1860 on the same site that the school occupies today. In 1908 the school was renovated and its name changed to Buccleuch School. The name changed again in 1915 to Hawick Higher Grade School. The school was destroyed by a fire in December 1925 and students were instead taught in the church while it was rebuilt. It was completed in 1928. There were further renovations in the 1970s when an extension was built, in the 1990s when the school was modernised and in 2003 when the canteen was renovated. In 2016 the headteacher was suspended. The headteacher of Berwickshire High School filled in the position until Vicky Porteous was appointed in July 2017. In September 2021, it was announced that a new circa £49 million will be built to replace the current school on its existing site by 2027.

Notable alumni

* Brian Balfour-Oatts (born 1966), international art dealer, writer and philanthropist. * Sir Angus Deaton (born 1945), economist, winner of the 2015

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. Left the school when awarded a foundation scholarship to

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. *

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(born 1955), Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South 1987–2010 * Richard Henderson (born 1945), molecular biologist, winner of the 2017

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. * Stuart Hogg (born 1992) Scottish Rugby player for Exeter and Scotland. *

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(born 1968) Ex-Scottish international Rugby player: Previous record try-scorer holder until passed by Stuart Hogg in November 2021. *Sir

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(1864–1959) pathologist *Professor William Lowrie (1939) Professor of Geophysics at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) *Andrew Cranston (born 1969), artist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cranston * Robert Wilson MBE (born 1951), Music Industry Entrepreneur. * Sir David Wallace (born 1945), physicist *Lana Skeldon Scottish international rugby player *Lisa Thomson Scottish international rugby player, represented the UK at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics *Julie Forrest World indoor bowls champion *Bailie Susan Rae City of Edinburgh councillor *Matilda "Madge" Elliot MBE campaigner to save the Waverley railway line *Zandra Elliot councillor and Honorary Provost *Phoebe Gale professional mountain bike rider

References

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