Baltasound Junior High School, on the Shetland island of Unst, is the most northerly school in Britain.
The School currently provides Primary education for the villages of Baltasound and Haroldswick, and Nursery and Secondary education for children from the whole of Unst. In August each year, an intake of Primary 7 pupils from Uyeasound and Baltasound Primaries move into the Secondary department at Baltasound, to become the new Secondary 1, and they stay until the end of their Standard Grades in Secondary 4.
Only 18 people have been head teacher at Baltasound, many of these for just a few months,and just four people have been head since the First World War.
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