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East Plean Public school was in operation from c. 1873. It was also a Junior Secondary School. It was refurbished in 2000, with a nursery school being added to the building. A fire destroyed the school in 2010 and East Plean Primary School and Nursery School’s new building was officially opened on 7 December 2012. It still operates to this date.

East Plean Subscription School was in operation from c. 1848 – 1900.

West Plean Primary School was in operation from c. 1843 – c. 1991.

A chapel was built in Plean in 1839 and the parish was disjoined from St Ninians in 1879. It was in the Presbytery of Stirling and was linked in 1974 with Cowie. Plean and Cowie joined together in 2013 with the congregation staying at Plean Church.

Cowie Parish Church joined with Plean Parish Church in 2013, with the church in Plean being used.

The Bolton Baronetcy, of West Plean in the County of Stirling, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 January 1927 for Edwin Bolton, Chairman of the Territorial Army Association. The second Baronet was Sir Ian Frederick Cheney Bolton, Lord-Lieutenant of Stirlingshire. The title became extinct on his death in 1982.

Sir Ian Frederick Cheney Bolton, 2nd Baronet, of West Plean, was born in 1889 and educated at Eton. He succeeded his father, Sir Edwin Bolton, in 1931. During the First World War he served in the 3rd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was trained as a chartered accountant and became president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1955. He was also a member of the British Transport Commission from 1947 to 1959 and Lord Lieutenant of Stirling from 1949. He had a keen interest in the scouting movement and was Chief Commissioner of Scotland. Bolton was made OBE in 1946 and KBE in 1957, and died in 1982.

Sir Edwin Bolton, 1st Bt. married Elinor Elisabeth Graham, daughter of Sir John Hatt Noble Graham, 1st Bt. and Jane Browne Adam, on 12 April 1888. He died on 7 October 1931. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) He was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) He gained the title of 1st Baronet Bolton.