History
Aberdour was founded in 1933 as a boys boarding school. In 1994 it became a co-educational school and its first intake of girls was welcomed with the newly opened nursery.
In 1971 Aberdour School became an educational charitable trust and is now administered by a board of governors.
In 2010 Aberdour won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Bill Bryson Science Prize.
In 2011 Simon Collins, Head, was give the accolade of Independent School Head of the Year.
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