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Clydebank High School celebrated its 125th Aniversary in 1998 having had its birth in the original Clydebank School founded in 1873 after the passage of the Education Act which established compulsary secondary schooling. From its early building at the shipyards the school used various sites in the town before for many years occupying the Miller Street building and finally moving to the existing campus in the 1940s.

The present old building was constructed in the period immediately before the Second World War, but only fully occupied fully in 1947. It was remodelled in the early 1970s when major extensions were added. The increasing roll thereafter required additional temporary hutted classrooms until 1983.

The school roll at various times in its history has reached 1500, even as recently as 1982. It is now over 1100 and has begun growing steadily once more. Clydebank High today serves the western half of the town and the outlying villages of Bowling, Old Kilpatrick, Hardgate and Duntocher. Many pupils travel to school by bus and train and a number attend by placing request. Adult students are included in classes where possible.

The School has good accommodation. As well as standard classrooms, the building contains purpose built and equipped rooms and areas for everything from science, art, home ecnomics and technical to music, business studies and computing. Students can make use of two gymnasia, a games hall and a squash court as well as hockey, rugby and football pitches. The main assembly hall is used for many sporting purfoses, and use is also made of local swimming pools, sports facilities and dry ski-slope.

Students are divided into four houses: Arran, Bute, Cumbrae and Davaar. These form the basis of a caring guidance provision, which concentrates strongly on pastoral concerns, careers guidance and personal and social education.

The celebrations throughout 1998 included a varied range of events and activites which it is hoped all associated with Clydebank High School, past present and future, participated and enjoyed.

An active school board, and the support and interest of former pupils, parents and friends help the school prepare for and develop the role it will continue to play in the new millennium.