Bo'ness Academy, Bo'ness
Bo'ness Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Bo'ness.
- Attendance
- 86.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Bo'ness Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Bo'ness 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 817 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.
14% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 41% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
8% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 12% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 86.9% in 2024/25, and 37.9% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 73% full.
92% of pupils who left in 2021/22 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.
Getting there
The nearest tram or metro stop is Bo’ness (Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway), about 920 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bo'ness Academy (at), 0 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Bo'ness Academy are St Mary's RC Primary School (0.2 miles), Grange Primary School (0.4 miles), Bo'ness Public School (0.5 miles) and Kinneil Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Falkirk publishes both.
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolGrange Primary SchoolBo'ness Public SchoolKinneil Primary School
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Bo'ness Academy's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
Bo'ness Academy (BA) is a mixed secondary school in Bo'ness, Falkirk, Scotland. The headteacher is Catriona Reid, who was appointed in 2020.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Bo'ness Academy
What is the catchment area for Bo'ness Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Bo'ness Academy is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Falkirk. Falkirk publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Bo'ness Academy?
If you live in Bo'ness Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Falkirk will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Falkirk - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Bo'ness Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Bo'ness Academy?
Bo'ness Academy is at Gauze Road, Bo'ness, Bo'ness, EH51 9AS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)