Beath High School

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Beath High School
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Address
Beath High School
Foulford Road

Cowdenbeath
,
Fife
,
KY4 9BH

Scotland
Coordinates 56°06′49″N3°21′25″W / 56.1135°N 3.357°W / 56.1135; -3.357
Information
TypeComprehensive
MottoSurgo in Lucem (Rise to the light) [1]
Established1910
Local authorityFife Council
HeadteacherStephen Ross
GenderMixed
Age11to 18
Enrolment1200
HousesNess, Katrine, Lomond, Rannoch,
Colour(s)    
PublicationBeath High School Newsletter
Website http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=9786f936-aca0-4460-bf2970239fe78ec9

Beath High School is a non-denomational state secondary school in Cowdenbeath, Fife. The school is run by Fife Council and the current roll stands at around 1400 pupils aged from 11 to 18. It serves Cowdenbeath and Kelty and the villages of Crossgates, Hill of Beath and Lumphinnans. Some pupils from Lochgelly and Ballingry attend the school. The current rector is Stephen Ross. [2]

Contents

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History

Beath High School was built in 1890 as Beath Higher Grade School, catering for the children of local people who wished to proceed to higher education. [2] This building was located on Stenhouse Street, close to the town centre. [3] In 1964 a 'modern' school was opened on Foulford Road on the edge of the town. [4]

From 1964 until 1981 the two buildings operated as separate schools with the new building housing Beath Senior High School and catering for pupils perceived as more academic while the older building, then known as Beath Junior High School, provided a more vocational education up to O-grade standard. Pupils from Beath Junior High, Ballingry Junior High and Auchterderran High had an opportunity to move to Beath Senior High at the end of their 2nd year or for 5th and 6th year if they wished to take 'Higher Grade' qualifications. In 1981 the two schools were combined as Beath High School with the older building acting as an annexe for S1 and S2 pupils. The opening of the new Lochgelly High School in 1987 resulted in a significant change in the school catchment area and a reduction in the school roll. This reduction in headcount together with the poor state of repair of the Old Beath building resulted in the closure and, in the 1990s, the partial demolition of the Stenhouse Street building. Part of the Old Beath building, the Art Department, can still be seen on Stenhouse Street at the junction with Rowan Terrace.

By the 1990s, the Foulford Road building was also in a poor state of repair and struggling to provide suitable teaching accommodation with many classes being taught in outdoor huts that were supposed to be temporary but were there for twenty years. In 2003 a new school building was completed to the east of the previous Foulford Road site allowing everything apart from the games hall built in the early 1980s to be demolished and a new all-weather sports pitch to be built on the former school site.

In 2002, the school was awarded with the National Curriculum award. [5]

Notable former pupils

Current building

The current building stands on three floors, separated into three blocks, joined together at the back of the school.

Houses

Beath High School has four houses, each named after the lochs In Scotland. Each house has House Captains, made up from pupils across S1-S6.

Previous House Names were

Beath (senior) high school used to have 4 houses named:


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