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Annan Academy is a secondary school in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The present school is the result of an amalgamation in 1921 of the original Annan Academy and Greenknowe Public School, although its history goes back to the 17th century.
   There are four "houses": Bruce, Douglas, Kinmount, and Solway; whose colours are blue, green, red and yellow respectively. Prefects from the fifth and sixth forms are elected by both pupils and staff.
   Behind the buildings are the school's sports playing fields which additionally play host to local fairs and other outdoor functions such as the annual national pipe band competition. Adjacent to the school's main car- and coach park, which is situated at the front of the buildings, lies the Annan public swimming baths and associated car park.
   Annan Academy created its own website in February 2007.

History

The original Annan Academy, founded in 1802, was housed in a building in the town's Port St until 1820, when the council built new school premises in Ednam St. From there it moved to further new buildings in Greenknowe in 1840, but these were later replaced by larger ones with a distinctive bell-tower in 1895, which are still in use today and house the school's library. The latter red sandstone buildings were joined during an expansion in the 1960s by several new buildings of contemporary style and construction, enabling it to accept more pupils from a wider catchment area.

Former pupils

Edward Irving (1792–1834), Scottish clergyman
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian
Archie Brown (1938–), Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University
Russell Brown (1951–), Scottish Labour Party politician
Jim Wallace (1954–), Deputy First Minister of Scotland for 1999—2005
Ashley Jensen (1969–), Hollywood actress

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