Dunoon Grammar School, ARGYLL

Dunoon Grammar School 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.

Dunoon Grammar School offers Gaelic-medium education.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 743 pupils and 12.2 pupils per teacher.

30% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 54% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.

Attendance was 87% in 2024/25, and 45.2% 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 74% full.

94% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 96% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

In its own words: "Dunoon Grammar School has a very long and distinguished history spanning over 350 years of growth, of which high standards of academic and personal development have been the hallmarks. The aims of a school are continually under review, and at present we would hope that, within the resources of the school and of the community, the school will attempt"

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Dunoon Grammar School.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Dunoon Grammar School (at), 60 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Dunoon Grammar School are Kirn Primary School (0.2 miles), St Mun's Primary School (0.6 miles), Sandbank Primary Gaelic Unit (0.9 miles) and Sandbank Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Argyll & Bute publishes both.