co-educational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...
located in
Pollok
Pollok (, ) is a large housing estate on the south-western side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate was built either side of World War II to house families from the overcrowded inner city. Housing 30,000 at its peak, its population ha ...
, Glasgow, Scotland. It was built on the site of, and using some buildings from, the former Craigbank Secondary School, to replace the previous Catholic school in the area, Bellarmine Secondary (the
Silverburn Centre
Silverburn is an out-of-town shopping centre located on Barrhead Road in Pollok, Glasgow, Scotland. The development replaces the Pollok centre with a brand new shopping centre, anchored by Tesco, Next, Marks & Spencer and previously Debenha ...
is now at its location), opening with its new identity in 2002.Project 2002 will upgrade city's schools The Herald, 20 February 2001
The majority of the Pollok district falls into the
catchment area
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of a different school, Lourdes Secondary, while St Paul's serves communities further south including
Arden
Arden may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Arden Street, North Melbourne, Victoria
* Arden railway station, Melbourne
Canada
* Arden, Ontario
Denmark
* Arden, Denmark, a town
** Arden Municipality, a former municipality, including the town of Arden ...
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Carnwadric
Carnwadric is a residential area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde, and is bordered by a park to the north (King George V Park, on the other side of which is the Kennishead neighbourhood), the Arden housing estate ...
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Darnley
Darnley is an area in south-west Glasgow, Scotland, on the A727 just west of Arden (the areas are separated by the M77 motorway although a footbridge connects them). Other nearby neighbourhoods are Priesthill to the north, Southpark Village ...
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Deaconsbank
Deaconsbank is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde. The main feature of the area, which falls into the ''Greater Pollok'' ward of Glasgow City Council and directly borders the East Renfrewshir ...
Househillwood
Househillwood is a residential neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland, situated in the south-west of the city.
Location and history
Househillwood is close to the centre of the Pollok district and is often considered to be part of ' Greater Pollo ...
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Kennishead
Kennishead (, ) is a neighbourhood in the
Nitshill
Nitshill () is a district on the south side of Glasgow. It is bordered by South Nitshill to the south, Darnley to the east, Crookston and Roughmussel to the north-west, Hurlet to the west and Househillwood and Priesthill to the north, with ...
Priesthill
Priesthill () is a neighbourhood in the south of the River Clyde in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It falls under the Greater Pollok ward of the city council area. The Darnley neighbourhood is located to the south, on the opposite side of the Gl ...
Glasgow City Council
Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: ''Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu'') is the Local government in Scotland, local government authority for Glasgow, Glasgow City council area, Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was former ...