page_title: Douglas Academy
section_title: Surrounding area
hierarchical_section_title: Douglas Academy / History / Surrounding area
caption_attribution_description: English: Milngavie town centre.
context_page_description: Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive secondary school in the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. Douglas Academy is one of Scotland's top performing state schools. In 2007, Douglas Academy was ranked as Scotland's top performing state school, and with every year the school continues to place among the highest in the country.
context_section_description: The school is flanked by the housing estate, aptly named "Mains" estate, after the aforementioned Lairds of the Mains. However, looking outwards, Douglas Academy is situated in the heart of the suburb of Milngavie, just north of its own village centre. Due to this, Douglas Academy continues to educate succeeding generations of Milngavie's family residents, whether they live in the Mains estate or outwith, and co-operation between the school and the town remains high. Indeed, this is directly achieved through the rich, shared history of Douglas Academy and Milngavie articulated in the fore article.
  A poignant example of this shared history came in the wake of the First World War when the 20th Laird of Mains, Brigadier-General Campbell Douglas, father to the mentioned 21st and last, unveiled the Milngavie War Memorial in the village centre in 1922. The Laird proclaimed:
  We are taking part today in a ceremony which surely will long remain in the annals of the burgh of Milngavie and district. It is of very great significance to all of us in our hearts that we are honouring the memory of the 110 brave men who left our midst and fell in the Great War.
caption: Milngavie town centre
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