Lenzie Academy

Lenzie Academy is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The catchment area covers Lenzie, Auchinloch and southern parts of Kirkintilloch.

Lenzie Academy
Address
Myrtle Avenue,
Lenzie

Glasgow
,

G664HR

Scotland
Information
TypeComprehensive school
MottoDitior Quia Doctior (Richer through learning)
Established1886
School districtEast Dunbartonshire
Head teacherBrian Paterson since 2011[1]
Faculty101[2]
GradesS1 to S6
Number of students1158 in 2017[3]
YearbookLenzie Academy Yearbook
AffiliationsAuchinloch Primary School
Lairdsland Primary School
Lenzie Meadow Primary School
Millersneuk Primary School
Websitelenzieacademy.e-dunbarton.sch.uk

Senior management team

The school is managed by the senior management team, composed of the Head Teacher and six Deputy Head Teachers, each in charge of a year group. In 2014–2015 the headteacher was Brian Paterson.[4]

School roll

The most recently reported school roll is 1296, taught by a teaching staff of 101.[2] The S1 intake cap is 240, based on an average annual first year intake of eight classes of approximately thirty pupils each, mostly coming from four associated primary schools, namely Auchinloch, Millersneuk, Lairdsland and Lenzie Meadow Primary. Approximately 40% of the total roll are from outside the catchment area, attending as placing requests. The S1 rolls have slightly reduced in recent years and in early 2012 the reported 2012/2013 intake was 226 pupils, consisting of 125 from the zoned area and 101 through placing requests.[5] The total school roll has been falling every year for the last 8 years with the 2011/2012 figure being 25 pupils lower than the previous years 1321 pupils.[6]

Table
School yearSchool rollS1 intakeS2S3S4S5S6Placing requestsSources
2004/20051431236258256250242189[7]
2005/20061387237238260253227172122[8]
2006/20071380235237240262242164[9]
2007/20081362239232240236244171[10]
2008/20091358238238238242215187[11]
2009/20101334235237238233217174109[12][13]
2010/2011132120423222923522120092[6][14]
2011/20121296103[2][14]
2012/20131269220212212232204189102[5][15]
2013/20141238

[16]

2014/20151231[17]
2015/2016
2016/20171167184217191190222163[18]
2017/20181158199186216191175191[3]

Alcohol and drugs controversies

In October 1995, two 12-year-old boys were suspended for dealing with drugs. It followed a string of other drug-related incidents. In 1994, a 16-year-old was expelled for drug dealing, then re-admitted. Also that year, four pupils were suspended over claims of drug taking, and a 15-year-old boy was arrested outside school and charged with possessing cannabis."[19] Eight pupils who smoked cannabis on a school trip to Alton Towers were suspended for a fortnight following a disciplinary hearing at the school in June 1998.[20]

Black Lives Matter Controversy

An investigation by East Dunbartonshire Council started on 4th June 2020 after Lenzie Academy's physics department account published a tweet which reportedly mocked the Take the Knee campaign.[21] The campaign had taken off after the death of George Floyd a week previously in the USA.[21] The tweet, which has since been deleted along with the account itself,[22] stated: "#TaketheKnee? Aye you can f*** right off".[21] The council confirmed that they had reported the incident to the police.[21] The local MP, Amy Callaghan, said that she had contacted the council and the school headmaster about the tweet, and that she had also heard from students of the school about their experience of racism.[21][23]

Bullying and gang issues

The school has also received continuing attention for problems with gangs/bullying as well as knife crime.[24][25][26]

In 2016 a boy of 14 was reported to the police after a knife incident at the school.[27]

The suicide of Nicola Ann Raphael, a pupil at Lenzie Academy, in 2001 was heavily covered in local and national press and came after Raphael had suffered years of bullying.[28]

School buildings

The current red brick Academy building was built in 1960 and extensions have been added to it over the years.[29] [30] The original school building dating from when the Academy was founded in 1886 has since served as Lenzie Primary school.[31][32] More than 110 years after opening the school admitted its first physically disabled student in 1996 which meant the school had to install a lift and ramps to make the whole building accessible.[33][34][35]

Head teachers

There have been ten head teachers of Lenzie Academy. For 125 years until 2011, the head teacher was referred to as Rector.

Head TeacherStart of officeEnd of officeDuration (years)CommentsSources
Alexander Buchanan M.A.1886191933First head[36][37]
Peter Dawson191919234Second head
George Murray1923193512Third head[38][39][40]
Charles Farquharson1935194611Fourth head[38][41]
John Kerr194619504Fifth head
George Young1950196515Sixth head[42]
James Hamilton1965197712Seventh head
Colin M. Brown1978199719Eighth Head[43][44]
Roderick J. McLelland1997201114Ninth to hold the role. He entered early retirement on Friday 24 June 2011 after being in the position since May 1997 and Dr James R Melrose was acting head until the replacement was appointed. [4][45]
Brian Paterson2011Tenth head teacher and first to dispense with the term "rector". He was appointed and took up his post in September 2011 after serving as Head Teacher of the now closed Abronhill High School in nearby Cumbernauld. [1]

Notable people educated at Lenzie Academy

Academic rankings

In 2014 the school was ranked 13.th in STV's league table of Scottish state schools.[67] This builds upon the 19th position achieved in 2013 and the 16th position achieved in 2012 based on the percentage of pupils obtaining 5 or more Highers at bands A-C.[68]

See also

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