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St. Roch's Secondary School is a Roman Catholic
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
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. It is named for the Christian Saint
Roch Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoke ...
.


Notable alumni

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– Celtic,
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and Scotland – a member of the
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External links


St Roch's Secondary's page on Scottish Schools Online
Catholic secondary schools in Glasgow Springburn 1928 establishments in Scotland Educational institutions established in 1928 {{RC-school-stub