St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch

For the school in East Renfrewshire, see St Ninian's High School, Giffnock.

St Ninian's High School
Address
Bellfield Road Kirkintilloch , East Dunbartonshire , G66 1DT Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′17″N 4°09′45″W
Information
Type	Comprehensive
Motto	In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (unity in necessary things; liberty in doubtful things; charity in all things)
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1874
Local authority	East Dunbartonshire
Headteacher	Paul McLaughlin
Deputies	Garry Mulgrew (S1/S3) Suzanne Boyle (S2) David Sheeran (S6) Steven Rance (S4/S5)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	829[1]
Houses	St. Andrews St. Mungo St. John Paul St. Margaret Of Scotland St. John Ogilvie St. Teresa Of Calcutta
Colour(s)	tie colours crest colours
Website	http://www.st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.uk

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	References
2000/2001							740	[2]
2001/2002							713	[3]
2002/2003	142	119	157	117	104	85	724
2003/2004								[4]
2004/2005							764	[5]
2005/2006
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	137	154	140	127	83	757
2010/2011							779
2011/2012	107	136	126	151	126	105	751	[6]
2012/2013	128	113	148	131	142	97	759	[1]
2013/2014	125	136	120	143	111	108	743
2014/2015	128	133	137	121	126	89	734
2015/2016	136	126	138	135	118	107	760
2016/2017	142	140	126	136	117	89	750
2017/2018	176	150	144	126	116	88	800

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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.^[9][10][11]

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

See also: Category:People educated at St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch

• Theresa Breslin (born 1947), author^[12]
• Peter Capaldi (born 1958), actor^[12]
• Stephen Crainey (born 1981), footballer^[12]
• Karamoko Dembélé (born 2003), footballer^[13]
• Bishop Joseph Devine (1937 – 2019), Bishop of Motherwell^[14]
• John Hendrie (born 1963), footballer
• Aaron Hickey (born 2002), footballer^[15]
• Des McKeown (born 1970), footballer^[12]
• Charlie Mulgrew (born 1986), footballer^[12]
• Bishop Ian Murray (born 1932), Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles^[12]
• Katie Sutherland, musician (Pearl and the Puppets)^[12]
• Kieran Tierney (born 1997), footballer^[12]
• Paul Wilson (born 1950), footballer^[12]

References

1. "List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information" (XLS). Scotland.gov.uk. September 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
2. "Scottish Secondary Schools League Tables". Thefreelibrary.com. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
3. "HOW YOUR SCHOOL IS RATED IN EXAM TABLE; Find out how every school in Scotland performed in the academic stakes with our easy-to-follow guide". Thefreelibrary.com. 27 November 2002. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
4. "List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information" (XLS). Scotland.gov.uk. September 2003. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
5. "HOW DID YOUR SCHOOL DO". Thefreelibrary.com. 15 December 2005. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
6. "List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information" (XLS). Scotland.gov.uk. September 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
7. "Scotland's best teacher meets the PM at No 10". Evening Times. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
8. Forbes, Dave. "St.Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch at". Flickr. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
9. "Celtic boys get shot at their goal". TES. 6 November 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
10. Alison McConnell (18 November 2009). "SCOTTISH FOOTBALL IN CRISIS: Celtic lead way in pioneering project to educate tomorrow's footballers". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
11. "Celtic link-up with Kirkintilloch high school is a net result for all!". Kirkintilloch Herald. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
12. "St Ninians - Famous Ex-Pupils". st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2015.^{[dead link‍]}
13. Burlaga, Kate (12 October 2016). "Karamoko Dembele: the lowdown on Celtic's 13-year-old prodigy". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
14. "Tribute to Bishop Devine". BBC News. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
15. Aaron Hickey details his Karamoko Dembele lessons as Hearts kid upstages school pal Gary Ralston, Daily Record (May 26, 2019) Archived May 26, 2019, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• St Ninian's High School's page on Scottish Schools Online
• French trip