Inverclyde Academy
Inverclyde Academy is a secondary school in Greenock, Scotland that provides education to the majority of the Inverclyde area. The catchment area for the Academy stretches from the Inverclyde border at Wemyss Bay to Greenock's East End and Strone Farm areas. The school was created by the amalgamation of Greenock High School and Wellington Academy and cost £29 million to open. History. The school was built on the site of three red blaes (gravel) football pitches. Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland, cut the first sod at the site on 26 February 2007. Initially, following  the merger, the school was split between the old sites of Greenock High School, two minutes from the current site, and Wellington Academy, on the other side of the town. In September 2007 the students went on strike in protest about the teaching time lost commuting between the two sites. As a result, Inverclyde Council decided that, from January 2008, all pupils would be housed in the Greenock High School campus on Inverkip Road until the new building could be occupied. The new building was opened on 19 December 2008 by Princess Anne.