Our History

The school was formed by the merger of two earlier schools, St Brides RC High School originally located at the Platthorn Drive site, and St Andrews RC High School located at Scholar's Gate in the Whitehills area of East Kilbride.

Opened in 1956 as a junior secondary and primary school, St Bride's was located close to the town centre consisting of one main building, with a separate Art block and three technical blocks. The advent of Comprehensive Education in 1967, meant that Catholic pupils would attend the school, as there would be no qualifying examination for senior secondary schools and so a further Science block and a Technical Block were built in 1970 and a large "New Block" with a Business studies block were opened in 1971. Later, in 1975/6 a large P.E.Block was built to complete the campus. At its largest, around 1977, the school was second largest in Scotland, with 2,220 pupils,

St Brides High School exceeded the capacity of its Platthorn Drive campus and as an interim measure took over the buildings of the then closed Old High School located at Old Mill Road in the East Mains area approximately one mile from the Platthorn Drive campus. This annex site was used to house the first-year intake for 1975, 1976 & 1977. The opening of the new St. Andrew's High School in 1978 reduced this over capacity. St Andrew’s High School was a state comprehensive mixed gender school with 893 pupils aged 12–18 years.

In August 2005 the two schools merged to become St Andrew's and St Bride's High School. For two years from 2005 until 2007 the school occupied a split site on the old St Andrew's site in Scholar's Gate and the former Ballerup High school site.

In August 2007 St Andrew's and St Bride's High School moved to its purpose built school in Platthorn Drive.