Allan Glen's School

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Allan Glen's School was, for most of its existence a selective fee-paying secondary school for boys in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded with an endowment on the death in 1850 of Allan Glen, a successful Glasgow tradesman and businessman to give a good practical education and preparation for trades or businesses, to between forty to fifty boys, the sons of tradesmen or persons in the industrial classes of society.

Although notionally fee-paying, the school offered a large number of bursaries and enrolled pupils from all social classes, selected on the basis of adademic ability. The school's emphasis on science and engineering led to it becoming, in effect, Glasgow's High School of Science. As such, it had strong connections with Anderson's College, which eventually became the University of Strathclyde.

The school eventually came under the control of the local authority and, when selective schooling was discontinued in local authority schools in 1979, Allan Glen's became a local co-educational comprehensive school. Since this was a radical change from the original intention of the founder, the school was closed in 1989 and the buildings assimilated into the nearby Glasgow Central College of Commerce.

Although the school emphasised science and engineering, its former pupils are well-represented throughout the Arts, Sciences and Engineering and include: Nobel laureate Lord Todd, artist George Wyllie , actors Duncan Macrae and Dirk Bogarde as well as architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.