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Castlemilk High School is a
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located in
Castlemilk Castlemilk () is a district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies to the far south of the city centre, adjacent to the Croftfoot and Simshill residential areas within the city to the north-west, the town of Rutherglen - neighbourhoods of Rutherglen#Sp ...
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, Scotland. It was established in 1990 from a merger of the district's two existing nondenominational high schools due to falling population figures, Glenwood Secondary (built 1958, which closed and was demolished, later replaced by a
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) and Grange Secondary (built 1968, which was used as the new campus for Castlemilk High). The campus was rebuilt in 2001 to a design for fewer pupils than its predecessor.


Head Teacher

The current Head Teacher, Lynn Gibson, was appointed in June 2015. The previous Head Teacher, Diane King, retired in 2015. Prior to this, Head Teacher Brian McAlinden CBE, in the post from 2001,Brian's mantra is helping pupils to succeed
Evening Times, 21 August 2009
retired in June 2010. His replacement Donna McMaster moved on to Inveralmond Community High School in
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Castlemilk's page on Parentzone
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