Hillhead High School is a

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, Scotland, on Oakfield Avenue, neighbouring the

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Admissions

It is one of the largest schools in

History

Grammar school

Until 1972 it was a co-educational selective school. It then became a comprehensive school.

Comprehensive

In 1972 the local authority in Glasgow abolished the selectivity process and the school gradually became a comprehensive school serving its geographical catchment area of Glasgow's West End, and serving many pupils from wider afield who had attended the primary school.

Former teachers

* Colin Campbell, SNP MSP from 1999 to 2003 for West of Scotland (taught from 1961 to 1963)

School facilities

The school has two buildings, the Main Building and the Terrace Building. It also uses the nearby Wellington Church for mass assemblies at October, Christmas, Easter and Summer. The X-shaped listed Main Building, acquired in the 1930s, is the larger of the two buildings, and is where most pupils begin their studies. Most of the school's classrooms and offices are situated on its four floors. Also in the Main Building is the

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, where a career and exam advisor makes biweekly appearances. The main building was designed by E G Wylie in 1921, and construction finished in 1929. It is now protected as a

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. Originally owned by the University of Glasgow, the Terrace Building was acquired by Hillhead in ''c.''2001. This building is used primarily for applied studies.

Notable former pupils

* Don Arrol, Glaswegian comedian and presenter of

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, actress * Prof Gordon Younger Craig, FRSE, geologist, James Hutton Professor of Geology 1967–84

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, and known for the Bürgi–Dunitz angle * Ian Dunn (d. 1998), gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group * Sir Alastair Dunnett, journalist and newspaper editor, Editor from 1956 to 1972 of ''

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under the school qualification rule * Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck, chairman from 1953 to 1960 of ICI *

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, Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature from 1950 to 1972 at

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, chairman from 1983 to 1986 of the

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, author * Saul Metzstein, film director * Edward Rosslyn Mitchell, Labour MP from 1924 to 1929 for Paisley * Shuna Scott Sendall, opera singer * Walter Owen, translator of S.American poetry (Argentine gaucho epic ''Martin Fierro'', etc.) * Sir Horace Phillips CMG, Ambassador to Turkey from 1973 to 1977, High Commissioner to Tanzania from 1968 to 1972, and Ambassador to Indonesia from 1966 to 1968 * Sir John Rennie CMG OBE, Governor of Mauritius (the last before its independence) from 1962 to 1968 * Anne Strachan Robertson, archaeologist and numismatist * Ian Rodger, co-founder of Scottish Opera * Prof

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, * Robert Service, poet * May Miles Thomas, film director *

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, former Independent MSP from 2003 to 2007 for Strathkelvin and Bearsden * Jonathan Watson, comedian. ( ''Only an Excuse?'') * James Alfred Wight OBE, writer and veterinary surgeon from 1939 to 1990 (

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from 1961 to 1976 * John Young, Conservative MSP from 1999 to 2003 for West of Scotland.

References

External links

*
Hillhead High's official websiteHillhead High School's page on Parentzone

League tables for the school
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