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Falkirk High School
Location
Falkirk , Stirlingshire Scotland
Information
Type	Secondary
Motto	Invicem Servite (Serve one another)
Head teacher	Stuart Kelly [1]
Teaching staff	102
Number of students	1,200
Color(s)	maroon/white
Athletics	gymnasium, swimming pool, dance/fitness suite and rugby/football pitch
Website	http://www.falkirk.falkirk.sch.uk/

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

It is a non-denominational six-year fully comprehensive school, situated approximately one 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), Mackay (Blue), Cameron (Green) and Robertson (Yellow), which are named after the first four rectors of the school.

• 2004/2005 1153^[2]
• 2010/2011 1058^[3]

• James Martin, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman since 2009 (taught from 1975 to 1979)
• Alexander Durie Russell FRSE (d.1955) maths teacher at Falkirk^[4]

• Craigie Aitchison, Lord Aitchison, Labour MP from 1929 to 1933 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 to 1941, President from 1928 to 1942 of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Professor of English at the University of Leeds^{[citation needed]}
• Ian Harley, chief executive officer, Abbey National Bank from 1998 to 2002
• David Marshall, Labour MP from 2005 to 2008 for Glasgow East, and from 1979 to 2005 for Glasgow Shettleston
• Prof Gordon Marshall CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 2003 to 2011 of the University of Reading, and chairman since 2007 of the Higher Education Statistics Agency
• Donald Shaw Ramsay, was a Scottish bagpiper. Qualified as a pipe major in the British Army, he led the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band to victory at the World Championships twice and was also leader of the all-star Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band during its four years of existence.^[5]