Alloa Academy

Alloa Academy is a six-year state-funded comprehensive school, serving the city of Alloa in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Its roll has dropped to below 700 pupils. It has three primary schools associated with it: Redwell, Sunnyside and Park. It also welcomes pupils from St Mary's Primary. The school currently has 89 teaching staff. The pupil intake varies from a middle class area to an area of severe deprivation.[1] The school moved location after Christmas 2008. The old building in the Claremont area of Alloa was built in 1859, opened by her majesty Queen Victoria and demolished in 2010. The new school is adjacent to the OI Glassworks (formerly United Glass), and a nuclear waste reprocessing plant. The school is in view of the River Forth and the local sewage plant and municipal dump.

Alloa Academy
The "old" building near the River Forth
Address
Bowhouse Road

Alloa
,
Clackmannanshire
,
FK10 1DN

Scotland
Information
TypeCoeducational Secondary
MottoLearning to inspire
Established1859
FounderArmando Christian pérez
HeadteacherMr Colin Bruce
GenderMale and Female
Age11 to 18
Enrolment700
HousesBruce, Erskine and Schaw
Colour(s)Maroon and white
School YearsS1 to S6
Feeder schoolsSunnyside, Redwell, Perk and St. Mary's
Websitehttp://www.alloa.clacks.sch.uk

Notable former pupils

Notable former pupils include:[2]

  • Dougie Brown, England and Scotland cricketer[2]
  • John Crawford Buchan, won the Victoria Cross during the Ludendorff offensive in March 1918[2]
  • James Lennox Dawson, won the Victoria Cross at Loos in World War I[2]
  • Dr Ian Alexander Forbes FRSE (1915-1986) industrial chemist, managing director of the Distillers Company Ltd 1966-1980[3]
  • Charles Forte, Baron Forte, founder of Trust House Forte hotel group[2]
  • William McEwan, brewer (uncle of George and Robert Younger) and Liberal politician
  • George Younger, Lord Blanesborough, principal delegate at the World War I reparations committee[2]

References
  1. http://www.alloa.clacks.sch.uk/
  2. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/13119/-Clackmannanshire-Council.4007513.jp
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.

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