[citation needed] Perth Grammar School is also a sports comprehensive, in partnership with a neighbouring secondary, St John’s Academy.

Perth Grammar's initial accommodation was very poor, consisting of mobile huts, built in 1947 as part of the government's HORSA programme, which had long outlived their projected lifespan of ten years.

[4] In March 1972, for instance, the director of education warned that the county's share of government funding for school-building projects would not be sufficient to meet even a reasonable first instalment of a replacement building.

[5] The first phase, incorporating around ten new classrooms, including the English department and a large resources centre, was eventually opened at the start of the new term on Monday 16 August 1976, with the administrative heart of the complex following in October.

[8] In 1983, the rector, Robert Heeps, castigated the regional council for its “complacent attitude” towards the school's accommodation crisis, citing temperatures plunging to the lower 50s in temporary classrooms with pupils huddled in gloves and anoraks.

[15] In October 1978 the school launched a 'talking magazine' which was recorded on cassette by senior pupils and distributed among the blind and partially sighted in the Perth and Kinross district.

[18] The school made history at the start of the 1986/87 term when it appointed the first male Home Economics teacher in Scotland: 22 year-old Alastair MacGregor, from Blair Atholl, who had recently graduated from Moray House College, Edinburgh.

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