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over 35 extracurricular activities including football, rugby, athletics, skiing, badminton, public speaking, choir, theatre, supported study, youth and philanthropy initiative (for seniors) and Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme. The school is split over three levels and has a library with computers for study, three gym halls, a fitness suite, and specialised science, computing, art, design and technology classrooms, study areas, a dining hall, and two athletic fields (one grass, one artificial). As of 2019 the grass pitch has been carved up into two separate sections, one of which has been converted into an artificial grass hockey pitch which is used by the Academy and the neighbouring primary school Thomas Muir.
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plan to build six new secondary schools in East Dunbartonshire. The school is now situated at the site of the former Thomas Muir High School on Wester Cleddens Road, where the new campus was completed in August 2009. Prior to that, Bishopbriggs Academy had been located at the former Bishopbriggs High
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In 2021, the school was named "The Scottish State Secondary School of the decade" by the Sunday Times in the Sunday Times School Guide, recognising the "exceptional leadership, top quality teaching and high academic standards that the school provides." It has also twice been named 'The Scottish State
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The school follows the Scottish Qualification Authorities curriculum, offering from National 3 up to Advanced Highers. The school has over 100 teachers, over 40 non-teaching staff (librarian, office staff, kitchen staff, technicians, facilities etc.) and offers around 30 subjects. The school offers
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The council consultation with parents had initially resulted in an agreement that the school would be built on the Bishopbriggs High School site, however this decision was later reversed in favour of the Thomas Muir site in Woodhill, releasing the more valuable BHS site for a proposed supermarket.
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Secondary School of the Year' by the Sunday Times in the Sunday Times School Guide, firstly in 2014 and again in 2017. The school consistently ranks at the top of the school exam league tables, with the school currently ranking 10th in the league tables (out of 340 secondary schools in Scotland).
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In January 2013 the school received four "Excellent" grades and one "Very Good" in an Education Scotland Inspection Report. This was the first time ever that education Education Scotland had awarded four "Excellent" grades under the new inspection standards which ranks school on 5 areas. The
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was opened by Lanark County Council in 1965 and designed by Simon Pollard. It replaced the previous Bishopbriggs Higher Grade School which had originally opened in 1896, designed by David Woodburn Sturrock, and featured inscriptions on its clock tower, commemorating the
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The two antecedent secondary schools were originally established to meet local demand during Bishopbriggs' housing boom beginning in the 1960s.
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The school was established in August 2006 as a result of the amalgamation of Bishopbriggs High School and Thomas Muir High School.
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Bishopbriggs High School and Thomas Muir High School merged in 2006 to form Bishopbriggs Academy as part of a £100million
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that year. This catered only for pupils up to S4 with most leaving at age 15 (S3); Higher Grade pupils transferred to
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taking pupils from S1 to S6. It is currently one of two secondary schools in Bishopbriggs, along with
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in Dunbartonshire. The school and its pupils appeared in an award-winning 1959 amateur film,
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David Wilson, chef & restaurateur, winner of Scotlands first Michelin star in the
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School buildings near Bishopbriggs Cross, which were demolished during June 2010.
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State secondary school in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland
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David Ferguson, British Judoka, Scottish Commonwealth games Athlete
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Inspectors also described the Academy as an 'outstanding school'.
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was named after the local historical political radical,
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Thomas Muir, Wester Cleddens, Balmuildy, and Meadowburn
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Bishopbriggs Academy's page on Scottish Schools Online
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Burns, MacDonald, Thomson, Kelvin, Fleming, and Muir
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