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Hazlehead Academy
Àrd-Sgoil Cheann Challtain
The school in 2024
Address
Map
Groats Road

Hazlehead, Aberdeen
,
AB15 8BE

Scotland
Information
School typeState Secondary School
MottoAd altiora tendo
(I strive towards higher things)
Established1970
Local authorityAberdeen City Council
Head teacherJim Purdie [1]
Staff80
Years taughtS1─S6
SexCo-educational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1100
Average class size30
Education systemEducation Scotland
Classrooms68
HousesBruce, Craigievar, Dunecht, Greyfriars, Marischal
GangYSB
Colour(s)Bottle green and navy blue   
National ranking155 of 340
Length of day7 periods (Monday, Tuesday)
Opened byElizabeth II
Websitesites.google.com/ab-ed.org/hazleheadacademy

Hazlehead Academy (Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-Sgoil Cheann Challtain), formerly known as Central School then Aberdeen Academy, is a comprehensive secondary school in Aberdeen, Scotland. It has five main feeder primary schools, Airyhall Primary School, Fernielea Primary School, Hazlehead Primary School, Kingsford Primary School and Countesswells Primary School - in addition to this, pupils who have been part of a Gaelic unit at Aberdeen's Gilcomstoun Primary School can transfer to the school, which offers Gaelic as part of the curriculum.

History

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Hazlehead Academy is a six-year comprehensive school on the western edges of Aberdeen, adjacent to Hazlehead Park. It has a history stretching back for over 100 years. In 1901, Aberdeen School Board built Central School on the corner of Schoolhill and Belmont Street, on a site now occupied by a shopping centre named The Academy. In 1954, the school was renamed Aberdeen Academy. When the school closed, the pupils were moved to the new Hazlehead Academy.[2]

Hazlehead Academy was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 7 October 1970. Plans were laid towards the end of the 1950s. The education committee at the time had under consideration the reorganisation of the existing Secondary provision of 3 Senior Secondary schools and a number of Junior Secondary schools into 10 co-educational comprehensives. Hazlehead Academy would become one of these senior secondaries and then a comprehensive school.

The current head teacher is Jim Purdie who took up post in August 2016. The school roll is around 1,100 pupils.

In 2012, the school was selected as the Aberdeen base for the Scottish Football Association's Performance Schools, a system devised to support the development of the best young talented footballers across the country (there are seven such schools across Scotland). As of 2018, the dedicated coach for the young players at Hazlehead is Stuart Glennie.[3]

Notable former pupils

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See also: Category:People educated at Hazlehead Academy

References

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  1. ^ "Alphabetical list of Aberdeen City Schools". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. ^ "The Silver City Vault::Central School (Aberdeen Academy)". The Silver City Vault. Aberdeen Central Library. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  3. ^ "JD Performance Schools: Hazlehead Academy - Aberdeen". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  4. ^ McArthur, Euan (2 January 2012). "Dundee United starlet Stuart Armstrong: I want last laugh on school pal Fraser Fyvie". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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