Earlston High School

Earlston High School
Earlston High School
Location
Earlston, Scottish Borders Scotland
Coordinates	55°38′21″N 2°39′42″W / 55.6391°N 2.6616°W / 55.6391; -2.6616Coordinates: 55°38′21″N 2°39′42″W / 55.6391°N 2.6616°W / 55.6391; -2.6616
Information
Type	Secondary School
Established	1877
Headteacher	Justin Sinclair
Years offered	S1-S6
Number of students	914
Website	http://www.earlstonhigh.scotborders.sch.uk

Earlston High School is a secondary school in Earlston, Scottish Borders. It serves Earlston, as well as the surrounding area. It is in the middle of Earlston, off the A68 road.

A new school building was completed in 2009.

Catchment area

Earlston High School accepts all pupils within a certain geographical area.^[1] Pupils from the areas below are offered free bus travel to and from the school (provided by Scottish Borders Council):

Earlston
Lauder
Channelkirk
Gordon
Westruther
Hume
St. Boswells
Darnick
Melrose
Bowden
Newstead
Newtown St. Boswells

Pupils from these areas, where there are other high schools, can be accepted, but must pay for transport to the school:

Galashiels
Tweedbank
Kelso
Jedburgh
Stow

New school

A new Earlston High School has been built along with two other schools in the region.^[2] This is to cope with the rising pupil body and the limited space available. The new school building was designed by architects 3D Reid and built by Graham Construction, opening its doors to pupils in August 2009.

Primary school

Earlston Primary School has strong links to Earlston High School, and adjoined the old main high school building.

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