Why did greenock academy close

The Greenock Academy was opened as a fee paying secondary and primary establishment in September in Nelson Street , Greenock. The school lay at this central Greenock location for almost a century of its lifetime before the building was demolished and moved to a modern building in Madeira Street of Greenock's west end, on the site of the old Balclutha mansion.

The new Academy featured both a secondary and primary school with the later named 'south wing' area being the primary school.

Another similar school with a yacht club was Rothesay Academy on the Isle of Bute. The primary department was abolished in and the lower door handles and alphabet tiles still remained into the years as a secondary school. The Madeira Street campus remained open through into the new millennium as Greenock Academy clocked up its th year in The disrepair of the ageing building overthrew the academic performance of the academy and in the school prepared to shut its doors after years in service.

The new school, on the site previously occupied by St Columba's High School, Gourock, is known as Clydeview Academy and opened in The site was leased from Inverclyde Council. Realla does not warrant or accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the property descriptions or related information provided here and they do not constitute property particulars.

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