It was the first secondary school in Lanarkshire built with specific provisions for courses leading to the "O" grade certificate.

At the opening ceremony, Provost Gordon praised the architects and builders for the fine job they had done and expressed that in his opinion the new building was already out of date because he felt that "...in the era of sputniks and moon rockets, while the school had many wonderful features, it could have been equipped with the modern closed circuit television equipment, to enable the streamlining of teaching."

By 1968, the school building had been extended to accommodate the improved Higher Learning Certificate syllabus.

Due to economic uncertainty, the abandoned building fell into an advanced state of dereliction and was later demolished in September 2009.

The site was later redeveloped by Barratt along with Persimmon Homes under the marketing title "Gamekeepers Wynd".