Forfar Academy, FORFAR
Forfar Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Forfar.
- Attendance
- 86.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Forfar Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Forfar 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.
Forfar Academy offers Gaelic-medium education.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 1015 pupils and 11.7 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 52% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
4% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 5% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 86.4% in 2024/25, and 46% 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 80% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Forfar Academy.
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Community Campus (at), 50 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Forfar Academy are Whitehills Primary School (0.7 miles), Langlands Primary School (0.9 miles) and Strathmore Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Angus publishes both.
Whitehills Primary SchoolLanglands Primary SchoolStrathmore 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 Forfar Academy in September 2026.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Forfar Academy is a comprehensive school serving the community in and around the market town of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 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 Angus is 1 (the median across 59 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
Forfar Academy
Questions parents ask about Forfar Academy
When was Forfar Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Forfar Academy in September 2026.
What is the catchment area for Forfar Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Forfar 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 Angus. Angus publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Forfar Academy?
If you live in Forfar Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Angus will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Angus - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Forfar Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 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 Angus is 1 (the median across 59 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Forfar Academy?
Forfar Academy is at Forfar Community Campus, Kirriemuir Road, FORFAR, FORFAR, DD8 3TG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)