, date = August 2009 Alloa Academy is a six-year state-funded

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, serving the town of

Alloa Alloa (Received Pronunciation ; educated Scottish pronunciation /ˈaloʊa/; gd, Alamhagh, possibly meaning "rock plain") is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is on the north bank of the Forth at the spot where ...

Clackmannanshire Clackmannanshire (; sco, Clackmannanshire; gd, Siorrachd Chlach Mhannainn) is a historic county, council area, registration county and Lieutenancy area in Scotland, bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and Perth & Kinross and the hi ...

, Scotland. The school currently has 89 teaching staff. The pupil intake comes from four "feeder" primary schools, Redwell, Sunnyside, St. Mungo's and Park, and varies from a middle class area to an area of severe deprivation. The school moved to its current location after Christmas 2008. The old building in the Claremont area of Alloa was built in 1859, opened by

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and demolished in 2010. The new school is adjacent to the OI Glassworks (formerly United Glass). The school is in view of the

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. The school building also contains St. Mungo's Primary School as a temporary measure while the primary school has a new school building built.

Notable former pupils

Notable former pupils include: *

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, England and Scotland cricketer *

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, won the Victoria Cross during the Ludendorff offensive in March 1918 *

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, won the Victoria Cross at Loos in World War I *Dr Ian Alexander Forbes

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(1915-1986) industrial chemist, managing director of the Distillers Company Ltd 1966-1980 *

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, founder of

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hotel group *

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, brewer (uncle of George and Robert Younger) and Liberal politician *George Younger, Lord Blanesborough, principal delegate at the

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reparations committee

References

{{authority control Secondary schools in Clackmannanshire Educational institutions established in 1859 Alloa 1859 establishments in Scotland