St. Ninian's High School is a Roman Catholic co-educational comprehensive secondary school, located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
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 School year S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 Total Roll References2000/20017402001/20027132002/2003142119157117104857242003/20042004/20057642005/2006 2006/2007 141 135 147 159 108 58 748 2007/2008 145 141 139 142 132 61 760 2008/2009 135 145 140 135 108 86 749 2009/2010 116 137154 140127 83 7572010/20117792011/20121071361261511261057512012/201312811314813114297759 2013/20141251361201431111087432014/2015 128133137121126897342015/20161361261381351181077602016/2017142140126136117897502017/201817615014412611688800
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 Celtic F.C., 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, Bearsden. St Machan's Primary School, Lennoxtown.
Notable former pupils
Theresa Breslin (born 1947), author Peter Capaldi (born 1958), actor Stephen Crainey (born 1981), footballer Karamoko Dembélé (born 2003), footballer Joseph Devine (1937 – 2019), Bishop of Motherwell Joe Docherty, Baron Docherty of Milngavie (born 1969), Labour peer John Hendrie (born 1963), footballer Aaron Hickey (born 2002), footballerAaron Hickey details his Karamoko Dembele lessons as Hearts kid upstages school pal Gary Ralston, Daily Record (May 26, 2019) Des McKeown (born 1970), footballer Charlie Mulgrew (born 1986), footballer Bishop Ian Murray (born 1932), Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles Katie Sutherland, musician (Pearl and the Puppets) Kieran Tierney (born 1997), footballer Paul Wilson (born 1950), footballer
References
External links
St Ninian's High School's page on Scottish Schools Online French trip