Williamwood High School

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Williamwood High School
Established	1930
Type	Secondary School
Headmaster	Mr John Fitzpatrick
Teaching staff	114.3 FTE
Students	1600
Location	Eaglesham Road,G76 8RF, Glasgow, Scotland
District	East Renfrewshire
Colours	Black, Blue, Green
Website	Official Website

Williamwood High School, located on the outskirts of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, is a non denominational state school . It has a school roll of over 1600 pupils and was recently built, replacing the old school on Seres road in Williamwood. The new school was officially opened on 11 December 2006 by the then First Minister of Scotland, Jack McConnell MSP.

The school achieves excellently in all Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education inspections and always rates very highly in the Scottish league tables, regularly coming number one in Scotland^{[citation needed]}. The school also achieves well in extra curricular activities including sports, where the school has received many national and international accolades and awards^{[citation needed]}. The school management say that the success of Williamwood is down to the hard work and dedication not only of the staff, but of the pupils in the school^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Old and new

The old school based on Seres Road was becoming old and impractical as several other schools in the area such as Netherlee Primary School became modernised as the secondary school remained untouched. It was originally built in the 1930s with various extensions and additions, including new PE facilities and the additions of exterior Portakabin buildings as extra classrooms being added as time went on. It was announced in 2003/2004 that a new school would be built under the PPP Scheme by the private company HBG [1]. Once built, they would take control of the school ensuring it was well maintained and replacing any broken fixtures and ensuring the running of the school building.

In August 2006 the new £27 million school opened. It features over 49 classrooms, each fitted with interactive whiteboards, new sports facilities including astroturf pitches and running track, a BBC-standard video editing studio (running Apple Computer Final Cut Pro software), drama studios and an industry standard recording studio^{[citation needed]}. Built around a central "Street" area, with separate "Gallery Café" reserved for 6th years.

The new School was officially opened by The Right Honourable Jack McConnell MSP in December. It was remarked that the new school was "The best equipped high school in Britain".^{[citation needed]}

The unoccupied former building was damaged by fire in February 2007. By March 2007 it was completely demolished to make way for development of other building projects^{[citation needed]}.