St Andrew'S And St Brides'S High School

St Andrew's and St Bride's High School is a Catholic school in East Kilbride, Scotland.

St Andrew's and St Bride's High School is a Catholic school in East Kilbride, Scotland. The current head teacher is Douglas Cosgrove. The school opened in 2007, and as of September 2010, had a roll of 1, 448 pupils. The new buildings are adjacent to St Bride's Roman Catholic church. The school was formed by the merger of two earlier schools, St Brides RC High School originally located at the Platthorn Drive site, and St Andrews RC High School located at Scholar's Gate in the Whitehills area of East Kilbride. Opened in 1956 as a junior secondary and primary school, St Bride's was located close to the town centre consisting of one main building, with a separate Art block and three technical blocks. The advent of Comprehensive Education in 1967, meant that Catholic pupils would attend the school, as there would be no qualifying examination for senior secondary schools and so a further Science block and a Technical Block were built in 1970 and a large "New Block" with a Business studies block were opened in 1971. Later, in 1975 /6 a large P. E. Block was built to complete the campus. At its largest, around 1977, the school was second largest in Scotland, with 2, 220 pupils, but the opening of St. Andrew's High in 1978 reduced this. It was a state comprehensive mixed gender school with 893 pupils aged 12–18 years