A local history places the opening ceremony on 26 October 1875 and says that the nearby Stonefield/Low Blantyre school opened the same day. The Stonefield history gives 25 October instead. The parliamentary motion confirms only the month for High Blantyre. Until school-board minutes or contemporary reports are checked, the precise shared opening date remains unresolved (see Stonefield Parish School and UC-014).

Hunthill Road school

An account in Blantyre Explained identifies the original school at 15 Hunthill Road and names Andrew J Smith as its architect. It describes a design matching the contemporaneous Stonefield/Low Blantyre school, an October 1875 opening, pupil transfers from the earlier parochial school the following month, an 1881 addition, and temporary use of nearby church and Masonic halls during overcrowding. These building details are attributed to that local history. Blantyre Project, “High Blantyre School”

The same account describes a later closure, temporary reopening of the old premises as an annexe for older primary pupils in 1975, and final closure around 1980. It therefore presents the move to Broompark Road as a transition in which the older building continued in temporary educational use. Blantyre Project, “High Blantyre School”

Broompark Road and the current school

The parliamentary motion says a new school opened on Broompark Road in the 1970s and that the present building followed in 2006. A South Lanarkshire Council school handbook independently states that the new school opened to pupils in January 2006. The same 2018 handbook describes nursery provision and supported classes, including classes for autistic pupils that it says had been present since April 2006. Those are the school's own dated administrative statements, not a current service specification. Scottish Parliament, motion S6M-18644 · South Lanarkshire Council, 2018 handbook

At the date checked, South Lanarkshire Council listed the school at Broompark Road in High Blantyre, with a nursery class and an additional-support-needs base. The listing displayed a roll of 249 without a visible academic-year label, so that number is retained only as a dated website snapshot and is not a stable historical statistic. South Lanarkshire Council school listing

School system

The opening belongs to the change from older parish and industrial provision to locally administered public schools after the Education (Scotland) Act 1872. The 1879 directory lists High Blantyre Public School and names David Duns as headmaster and Miss Aitken as mistress. For the wider parish's earlier provision and its separate Low Blantyre mill school, see Education in Blantyre and Churches, schools and societies in Blantyre in 1879.

An independent contemporary benchmark comes from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, whose Blantyre entry reports 400 places and average attendance of 383 at High Blantyre Public School in 1879. It records a grant of £335 2s 6d. The same passage gives Low Blantyre Public School 400 places, average attendance of 314 and a grant of £225 18s. These are comparable period statistics, not later building capacities or audited annual rolls. Their relatively high attendance against stated accommodation helps explain why the local histories describe extensions and overcrowding soon after the two schools opened. The gazetteer also names a separate Auchintibber Roman Catholic school, evidence that denominational schooling formed part of the parish network. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, “Blantyre”

The former Hunthill Road building is a lost school site; its exact architectural form, classroom layout, extensions and demolition date are not established by the cited evidence. A public photo index lists images labelled High Blantyre school in 1894, 1895 and 1900; its publisher requires permission for online or book republication, so captions are treated as catalogue descriptions. blantyre school photographic archive index The National Records of Scotland and Glasgow City Archives describe school-board minutes, admission registers, log books and inspection files as relevant classes of record, but their guides do not confirm a particular Blantyre file. Lanarkshire Family History Society lists extracts from a High Blantyre Public School log book dated 1873–1921, earlier than the reported 1875 opening; the available catalogue does not explain the discrepancy. NRS, education records guide · Lanarkshire Family History Society catalogue

The local account reports that the school closed on 1 June 1895 during a measles outbreak and reopened on 1 July, after the board moved the normal summer holiday forward.

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