Alloa Academy

{{more citations needed|date = August 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox school | name = Alloa Academy | image = Alloa Academy Main Entrance.JPG | image_size = | caption = The "New" building near the River Forth | motto = | established = {{start date and age|1859}} | closed = | type = Coeducational Secondary | religious_affiliation = Non-denominational | president = | head_label = Headteacher | head = Steven McGuckin <ref name="academy">{{cite web |title=Alloa Academy website |url=https://sites.google.com/cl.glow.scot/alloaacademy-01259214979/home |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref> | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = | specialist = | address = Bowhouse Road | city = Alloa | county = Clackmannanshire | country = Scotland | postal_code = FK10 1DN | local_authority = | urn = | ofsted = | staff = | enrolment = 761 <ref name="academy"/> | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 18 | houses = Bruce, Erskine and Schaw | colours = Maroon and white {{color box|#880000}}{{color box| #FFFFFF}} | publication = | free_label1 = School Years | free_text1 = S1 to S6 | free_label2 = Feeder schools | free_text2 = Redwell, Sunnyside, St. Mungo's and Park | website = https://www.alloaacademy.co.uk/ }}

'''Alloa Academy''' is a six-year state-funded school, serving the town of Alloa in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The pupil intake comes from four "feeder" primary schools,<ref name="academy">{{cite web |title=Alloa Academy website |url=https://sites.google.com/cl.glow.scot/alloaacademy-01259214979/home |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref> Redwell, Sunnyside, St. Mungo's and Park, and varies from a middle class area to an area of severe deprivation. The school moved to its current location after Christmas 2008. The old building in the Claremont area of Alloa was built in 1859, opened by Queen Victoria and demolished in 2010. The new school is adjacent to the OI Glassworks (formerly United Glass). The school is in view of the River Forth.

==Notable former pupils== {{See also|Category:People educated at Alloa Academy}} Notable former pupils include:<ref name="scotsman">{{cite web |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/13119/-Clackmannanshire-Council.4007513.jp |title=Clackmannanshire Council - The Scotsman |website=thescotsman.scotsman.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524133313/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/13119/-Clackmannanshire-Council.4007513.jp |archive-date=2011-05-24}}</ref> *Dougie Brown, England and Scotland cricketer<ref name="scotsman"/> *John Crawford Buchan, won the Victoria Cross during the Ludendorff offensive in March 1918<ref name="scotsman"/> *James Lennox Dawson, won the Victoria Cross at Loos in World War I<ref name="scotsman"/> *Dr Ian Alexander Forbes FRSE (1915-1986) industrial chemist, managing director of the Distillers Company Ltd 1966-1980<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=23 May 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Charles Forte, Baron Forte, founder of Trust House Forte hotel group<ref name="scotsman"/> *William McEwan, brewer (uncle of George and Robert Younger) and Liberal politician *George Younger, Lord Blanesborough, principal delegate at the World War I reparations committee<ref name="scotsman"/>

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Category:Secondary schools in Clackmannanshire Category:Educational institutions established in 1859 Category:Alloa Category:1859 establishments in Scotland