St. Ninian's High School is a

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, located in Kirkintilloch,

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, on the banks of the

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Admissions

There are currently over 900 students in attendance with an average of 5/6 classes in each year. Each class has no more than 30 pupils. St Ninians is a Roman Catholic School.

School roll

Academic performance

The school has consistently proved to be successful in a number of different areas – SQA results, the Charter Mark award, Investors in People recognition and the Scottish Education Award for “Raising Basic Standards”. In 2008, David Miller, an English Teacher, won the UK Secondary Teacher of the Year at the National Teaching Awards, and, in 2009, Headteacher Paul McLaughlin won the Scottish Secondary Head Teacher of the Year.

History

St Ninian's opened in 1874 in the town centre on Union Street. The school then moved to a new site in 1931 on the sight of the former Westermains House on Bellfield Road. It then moved from Bellfield Road to the former Thomas Muir campus in Bishopbriggs during the demolition and complete rebuild of the Bellfield Road Campus. As of August 2009, is back in Bellfield Road.

Celtic Youth Academy

St Ninian's High, in partnership with

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is at the forefront of a groundbreaking sporting initiative, the first of its type in Scotland. This allows the Celtic Academy players, who are pupils in S1 to S5, to combine intensive coaching sessions with a programme of studies based on continental methods, where everything is monitored including behaviour and homework.

Feeder schools

* Holy Family Primary School, Lenzie. * Holy Trinity Primary School, Kirkintilloch. * St Nicholas' Primary School, Milngavie. * St Machan's Primary School, Lennoxtown.

Notable former pupils

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, (born 1947), author * Paul Buchanan, musician (

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) *

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(born 1958), actor * Stephen Crainey (born 1981), footballer * John Hendrie, footballer * Bishop

Joseph Devine Joseph Devine (7 August 1937, Kirkintilloch – 23 May 2019) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell in Scotland. He was educated at St Ninian's School, Kirkintilloch, St. Mary's College, Blairs and St. Peter's College, Cardross Card ...

, (born 1937), Bishop of Motherwell *

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, (born 1970), footballer *

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, (born 1986), footballer *

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(born 1932),

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of the

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* Katie Sutherland, musician (

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) * David McErlane, musician (

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) * Paul Wilson, (born 1950), footballer

References

External links

St Ninian's High School's page on Scottish Schools Online

French trip
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