St Mungo's Academy is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, comprehensive, secondary school located in Gallowgate, Glasgow.

St Mungo's Academy was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1858 at 96 Garngad Hill,[1] Glasgow to educate poor Catholic boys, largely Irish immigrants or their children.

[citation needed] Marist Brothers played a large role in shaping the educational and social life of the Catholic residents of Glasgow in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1919 the school was absorbed into the state system, while retaining its Roman Catholic character under the running of the Marist Brothers.

Pupils travelled daily from Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire, Ayrshire and Dunbartonshire due to the lack of Catholic secondary schools in these parts.

[5] During these years the school population also reflected a migration into the city from the Highlands,[6] Italy and after the Second World War, Poland.

The motto came from two lines in one of Horace’s Satires ‘Nil sine magno, Vita labore dedit mortalibus’.

As a result of the increasing numbers of pupils a new annex, St. Kentigern's (formerly Alexander's School) in Duke Street, was purchased.

As a result, in 1967 St. Mungo's Academy was facing a future without a catchment area as soon as four new Catholic secondary schools would be completed to service its districts.

The aim is to reduce administration in individual schools, leaving more time for teaching and learning and work with other agencies in addressing pupils' needs.

Physical education facilities include 4 indoor areas and a new all-weather sports pitch, all used extensively by the local community.

[citation needed] The 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Mungo's Academy was celebrated in April 2008 at a dinner in a Glasgow hotel.

An icon of Saint Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers was unveiled at a celebratory mass, at St Mungo's Church, Townhead, in June 2008.

The play was described as "a funny but gentle heart-warming record of youthful naivety, hope and optimism; a story of six pals who, to paraphrase the school motto, achieved nothing without work – but never lost the dream.