page_title: Coatbridge
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Coatbridge / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Coatbridge High School
context_page_description: Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 8 ¹⁄₂ miles east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. While the earliest known settlement of the area dates back to the Stone Age era, the founding of the town can be traced to the 12th century, when a Royal Charter was granted to the monks of Newbattle Abbey by King Malcolm IV. Coatbridge, along with its neighbour Airdrie, forms the area known as the Monklands.
  In the last years of the 18th century, the area developed from a loose collection of hamlets into the town of Coatbridge. The town's development and growth have been intimately connected with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, and in particular with the hot blast process. Coatbridge was a major Scottish centre for iron works and coal mining during the 19th century and was then described as 'the industrial heartland of Scotland' and the 'Iron Burgh'.
  Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry. By the 1920s however, coal seams were exhausted and the iron industry in Coatbridge was in rapid decline.
context_section_description: Coatbridge College was built as Scotland's first college in the late 19th century. As Coatbridge has moved away from the traditional heavy industries the teaching focus has shifted from traditional industry courses towards commerce, care and the arts. St Ambrose, St Andrew's and Coatbridge High are the best-known secondary schools serving Coatbridge. The first two are Roman Catholic. St Ambrose was the subject of an HMI follow-up assessment visit in January 2009. Sports journalist and broadcaster Bob Crampsey was formerly headmaster of St Ambrose. Singer and television presenter Michelle McManus is a former pupil of the school. Prominent football referee Willie Collum taught religious education at St Ambrose in the early 2000s.
  As previously mentioned, Coatbridge has 3 secondary schools: St. Andrew's H.S (which opened in 2006), Coatbridge H.S (opened in 2008) and St. Ambrose H.S (which opened in 2013). St. Andrew's H.S is made up of staff and pupils of the two former schools St. Patrick's H.S (formerly located in the area of the new Coatbridge H.S) and Columba H.S, both schools have since been demolished around the date of the schools opening in October 2006.
  Coatbridge H.S is made up of staff and pupils of the original Coatbridge H.S (now Greenhill Primary and Drumpark Primary) as well as staff and pupils of the former Rosehall H.S (formerly located in the boundary of St. Andrew's H.S).
  Coatbridge also has several special needs schools including Pentland School (Primary school), Portland High School, Drumpark School, Willowbank School (High School) and Buchanan High School.
caption: The modern building of Coatbridge High School
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