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Coordinates: 55°59′49″N 3°48′18″W / 55.997°N 3.805°W / 55.997; -3.805

Falkirk High School is a high school located in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland that was founded in 1886.

It is a non-denominational six-year fully comprehensive school, situated in approximately 1 mile from the centre of the town. It serves a widespread catchment area and has eight associated primary schools: Bainsford, Bantaskin, Carmuirs, Comely Park, Easter Carmuirs, Langlees, Limerigg and Slamannan Primary Schools.

There are four houses – Campbell (Red), Robertson (Yellow), Cameron (Green) and Mackay (Blue), which are named after the first four rectors of the school.

Former teachers

• James Martin, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman since 2009 (taught from 1975–79)


• 
  Alexander Durie Russell FRSE (d.1955) maths teacher at Falkirk^[2]

Roll

• 2004/2005 1153^[3]


• 2010/2011 1058^[4]

Notable alumni

• 
  Craigie Aitchison, Lord Aitchison, Labour MP from 1929–33 for Kilmarnock
  


• novelist Alan 'Alvin' Bissett
  


• Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Painter and Limner
  


• Rev Dr John Urquhart Cameron, athlete, theologian, journalist


• Prof George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1938–41, President from 1928–42 of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Professor of English at the University of Leeds^{[citation needed]}


• 
  Bob McGregor MBE, swimmer^{[citation needed]}


• 
  Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail^{[citation needed]}


• 
  David Marshall, Labour MP from 2005–08 for Glasgow East, and from 1979–2005 for Glasgow Shettleston
  


• Prof Gordon Marshall CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 2003–11 of the University of Reading, and Chairman since 2007 of the Higher Education Statistics Agency
  


• 
  Craig Pollock, Formula 1 executive^{[citation needed]}


• 
  Alan Lawson, Rugby Union Scrum Half – 15 caps for Scotland. Bill McLaren's son in law.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Falkirk High School's page on Scottish Schools Online