Our History
St Modan’s High School in Barnsdale Road, St Ninians was officially opened by Archbishop McDonald of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh on 5 September 1933. The school was built to serve the secondary pupils of Stirlingshire, Bannockburn and Cowie.
It opened with a roll of 410 pupils and was one of the first Catholic Secondary Schools to be built in Scotland after the 1918 Education Act.
During the war years and afterwards the school continued to grow, reaching its maximum size of over 1200 pupils when the school leaving age was raised to 16 years
Click on the image below to get a snapshot of our school's history.
Since the reform of local government in 1996, the school has found itself in the unique position of serving pupils from three local authorities: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling.
Over this time, the school roll has settled between 8880 and 935 – an ideal size as it is big enough to provide a wide range of courses but small enough to enable positive relationships to be established between staff, pupils, and families.
The school moved to its present site in August 2008.
Click on the image of the school above to view a 3 Model created using Google Sketch Up.
St Modan's Minecraft-style
This year, one of our talented senior pupils recreated our school building in a Minecraft environment. Click here or on the image to see the building taking shape!
The 1930s
The 1940s
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