The School was founded as the Choir School of Glasgow Cathedral in the 12th Century, became the Grammar School of Glasgow in the 15th Century and changed its name to the High School of Glasgow in 1834.
The day after the closure of the Boys' High School the new, independent, co-educational High School came into being following a merger involving the Glasgow High School Club and Drewsteignton School in Bearsden.
The new, purpose-built Senior School is now set among spacious playing-fields at Anniesland, while the much-extended Junior School is in Bearsden.
