Douglas Academy, Milngavie
Douglas Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Milngavie.
- Attendance
- 92%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Douglas Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Douglas 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 1044 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.
7% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 36% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 8% speak English as an additional language.
4% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 52% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92% in 2024/25, and 22.5% 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 102% full.
97% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Douglas Academy in its own words
In its own words: "Douglas Academy, which opened for the first time in 1967, is a six year non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. The coat of arms on our school badge combines references to its geographical position and to the history of the grounds in which it is situated."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Douglas Academy are Bearsden Academy (1.4 miles), Drumchapel High School (2.5 miles), Boclair Academy (2.8 miles) and St Peter the Apostle High School (3.1 miles).
Bearsden AcademyDrumchapel High SchoolBoclair AcademySt Peter the Apostle High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Milngavie Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Douglas Muir Drive (before), 370 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Douglas Academy are Clober Primary School (0.6 miles), Craigdhu Primary School (0.9 miles), Milngavie Primary School (1.2 miles) and Baljaffray Primary School (1.3 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; East Dunbartonshire publishes both.
Clober Primary SchoolCraigdhu Primary SchoolMilngavie Primary SchoolBaljaffray 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Douglas Academy in February 2023.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementexcellent
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive secondary school in the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. In 2007, Douglas Academy was ranked as Scotland's top performing state school, and with every year the school continues to place among the highest in Scotland.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 0 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 East Dunbartonshire is 2 (the median across 45 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 Douglas Academy
When was Douglas Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Douglas Academy in February 2023. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as very good and raising attainment and achievement as excellent, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Douglas Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Douglas 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 East Dunbartonshire. East Dunbartonshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Douglas Academy?
If you live in Douglas Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Dunbartonshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Dunbartonshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Douglas Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 0 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 East Dunbartonshire is 2 (the median across 45 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Douglas Academy?
Douglas Academy is at Craigton Road, Milngavie, Milngavie, G62 7HS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)