Greenock Academy
The primary department was abolished in 1976 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 150th year in 2005. Three years later, the school was named as the best non-denominational school in Scotland and still remained within the top 10% of Scottish Secondary Schools long after the announcement. The disrepair of the ageing building overthrew the academic performance of the academy and in 2011 the school prepared to shut its doors after 156 years in service.
The Greenock Academy and Gourock High School merged into a new school in the Bayhill area of Gourock. The new school, on the site previously occupied by St Columba's High School, Gourock,[2] is known as Clydeview Academy and opened in 2011.[3]
On 27 October 2011, the BBC announced that they had selected the Madeira Street building of Greenock Academy to film the new series of TV Drama Waterloo Road, following the production company's move up north to nearby Glasgow. The company bought the site lease from Inverclyde Council and filming is underway until 2014
