Belmont Academy, Ayr

Belmont Academy is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 1163 pupils and 13.4 pupils per teacher.

16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 44% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 1% speak English as an additional language.

20% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 26% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 87.7% in 2024/25, and 45.8% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 90% full.

97% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

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