Gourock High School

Gourock High School
Location
Gourock , PA19 1TP Scotland
Coordinates	55°57′15″N 4°49′16″W
Information
Type	Day school
Motto	Honor Diligentiae Praemium
Established	1909
Closed	2011
Local authority	Inverclyde
Head teacher	Willie Todd
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	630
Colour(s)	Blue, grey and burgundy
Website	http://gourockhigh.inverclyde.sch.uk/

Gourock High School was a non-denominational comprehensive school catering for boys and girls, 11–18 years of age, in Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The school taught around 630 pupils. The school motto was Honor Diligentiae Praemium, which means "The reward for hard work is renown". Willie Todd had been headteacher since February 2008.

The school was ranked 22nd in a listing of the top 50 secondary schools in Scotland in 2005.

History

The original school was founded in 1909, and comprised separate primary school and larger secondary school buildings, both located on Binnie Street, Gourock. Robert Fulton, who had previously been head master of the Eastern School, was brought in to be the head master of the newly formed Gourock High School.

In 1963, the secondary school moved to Tower Hill where it provided first to fourth years (junior) secondary education under the care of Head Master William Russell. The (previously secondary school) building thus evacuated in Binnie Street was renamed and became the Gourock Primary School which continued to feed pupils completing primary into the new Gourock High. Pupils wishing to continue to fifth and sixth years of (senior) secondary progressed into the Greenock High School, initially in Dunlop Street Greenock, later relocated to a new building in Kip Valley.

Gourock High School closed in 2011, when it and Greenock Academy merged in a new school in the Bayhill area of Gourock. The new school, on the site previously occupied by St Columba's High School, Gourock, is known as Clydeview Academy.

External links

• Gourock High School's page on Scottish Schools Online