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Moray Street, Moray College Of Further Education (Former Elgin Academy) Fronting Moray Street, Arch And Bellcote 57°38′44″N 3°19′00″W / 57.645583°N 3.316586°W / 57.645583; -3.316586 ( Moray Street, Moray College Of Further Education (Former Elgin Academy) Fronting Moray Street, Arch And
The 9th century Pictish Elgin Pillar, found in the churchyard of St Giles' Church in 1823. The discovery of the Elgin Pillar, a 9th-century class II Pictish stone, under the High Street in 1823 suggests there may have been an Early Christian presence in the area of the later market, but there is no further evidence of activity before Elgin was created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century. [7]
Gordonstoun School (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ən s t ən / GOR-dən-stən) is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray, Scotland. It is named after the 150-acre (60-hectare) estate owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 17th century; the school now uses this estate as its campus. It is located in Duffus to the north-west of ...
Elgin Academy is the biggest school in Moray, with a history going back to the Middle Ages. The first school was built on the adjacent corners of Academy Street and Francis Place, now the site of the local youth cafe. The second academy was built in 1801, on the site that is now Moray College. [3]
The Old Town Hall in Moray Street. The first town hall in Elgin was on the north side of Moray Street. It was designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie in the Scottish baronial style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1885. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Moray Street.
The school has an Additional Support Needs team that caters for pupils with profound and complex learning difficulties. Elgin High School maintains strong links with the local community and is often involved in fundraising and charity events. The school was inspected successfully by HMI (Education Scotland) in 2011.
According to the SCIS, its members educate around 29,000 pupils in Scotland representing around 4.2% of the school age population in Scotland. [5] The figure is significantly higher in Edinburgh, with around 1 in 4 pupils educated at an independent school, the highest proportion in the UK. [6] This figure has risen to 30 per cent in recent ...
Elgin Academy, Moray, Elgin, Scotland, a high school; Elgin Academy (Elgin, Illinois), United States, an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory school; Elgin High School (disambiguation) Elgin Park Secondary School, a high school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada