Glenalmond College

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Glenalmond College

Motto: Floreat Glenalmond
Established	1847
Type	Independent coeducational boarding secondary
Warden	Gordon Woods
Students	395
Grades	S1–S6
Location	Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Campus	Rural; 300 acres
Website	www.glenalmondcollege.co.uk

Glenalmond College (formerly known as Trinity College, Glenalmond) is the name of a co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for children aged between 12 and 18 years. It is situated on the River Almond near the village of Methven, about 8 miles west of the city of Perth. The school's motto is Floreat Glenalmond ('Let Glenalmond Flourish'). The school is affectionately known as "Coll" by pupils and staff.

1 History
2 Boarding houses
3 Former Pupils
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Glenalmond College was founded as a independent school by William Ewart Gladstone and J.R. Hope (later Hope-Scott of Abbotsford). It was to be "north of Henderson]] was commissioned as architect. The school opened its doors on the 4th May, 1847 to fourteen boys (though one boy, Lord Schomberg Henry Kerr later Marquess of Lothian and Secretary for Scotland, notoriously arrived a day early). The first Warden (headmaster) was Charles Wordsworth.

Until 1990 Glenalmond was an all-boys school, but is now co-educational. The proportion of boys to girls is currently 2:1 although increasing amounts of female applicants has given rise to talk of a third girls boarding house.

[edit] Boarding houses

The pupils are classified into one of seven houses, named after staff who participated in the development of the school. The boys' houses are Skrine's, Matheson's, Patchell's, Goodacre's, and Reid's. The girls' houses are Home and Lothian. Until 1992 there was another boys' house called The Cairnies which will be reopened in summer 2006 as a girls' sixth form house.