St Ninian's High School

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St Ninian's High School, which opened in 1984, is a six-year co-educational Catholic School in East Renfrewshire. The school serves the towns of Clarkston, Giffnock, Newton Mearns, Eaglesham and Busby in East Renfrewshire and Arden and Darnley in Glasgow. The current school roll is 1705^[1], and the Head Teacher is Mr John Docherty.^[2] Celtic and Ireland football player Aiden McGeady is an ex-pupil of the school.

The school is often used as a 'test bed' for new systems or initiatives (due to its relative affluence and high exam pass rates). Examples include:

First public-sector organisation to win the 'Quality Scotland' business excellence award;^[3]
First state-funded school in Scotland to abandon the Standard Grade examination system in favour of the Higher Still system, using Access 3,Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2 for pupils in years three and four, while maintaining "Highers" in year 5 and Advanced Highers in year 6.; ^[4]
First state-funded school in Scotland to use the electronic application system for UCAS;^{[citation needed]}
First school in Scotland to receive the top rating in all areas from school inspectors^{[citation needed]}
In 2005, it became one of the first twenty eight schools in Scotland to be awarded Schools of Ambition status by the Scottish Executive. ^[5]

[edit] History

Between 2000 and 2002, a multi-million pound extension was built for the school (which was originally designed to hold only 700 pupils). The extension had been scheduled for years earlier (and completion by 1999 at the latest) however problems with the PFI tender for another local school project caused years of delay.