Eastwood High School is a comprehensive, non-denominational school located centrally in East Renfrewshire to the south of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of the successor schools to Eastwood Senior Secondary School which opened in 1936 in Clarkston, Glasgow.
Eastwood High School is situated on Capelrig Road and has a large suburban, and partly rural, catchment area. It stands in the grounds of Capelrig House constructed in 1769, which is a Category A building listed as being of architectural and historical importance.[1] The school serves the immediate area of Newton Mearns and the villages of Neilston and Uplawmoor.
Eastwood High School's cluster primary schools are Crookfur, Mearns, Neilston and Uplawmoor.
A new state-of-the-art school building was built, replacing the 1960s building, and is now in full use. It was opened in August 2013. This has improved the teaching facilities. The improvements include two all-weather pitches and a new sports complex.
Past student enrollments have had upwards of 1500 pupils.
Scotland's Evening Times ranked the Eastwood High School seventh in West Scotland in its 2009 rankings.[3]
Listed in the Herald Scotland' top fifty schools in Scotland (2011), with 21% of Eastwood High pupils achieving 5 or more Highers[4]
Gained Silver award (June 2010) in the Eco Schools Scotland Award Program[5]
Fair Trade School Status 2013
New school building
Work began on the new £32 million 'Eastwood High School' in August 2011.[6] The building is now complete and the school is now fully functional. There is a swimming pool, sports halls, all-weather running track and sports grounds, which are also open to the public and clubs outwith school hours.
Inspections
Eastwood High was last inspected by HMIE in December 2006 and gained a very favourable report with only three points identified for action.[7] These were addressed by the time of the local authority follow up inspection in 2008.
A further inspection was carried out in 2015. The report was very good and the pupils were noted as friendly and hardworking.[citation needed]
Departments
The subject areas in Eastwood High School are structured into nine faculties. Each has a faculty head who has overall management responsibility and leads the learning and teaching. The faculties are:
