Galashiels Academy, SELKIRKSHIRE
Galashiels Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Selkirkshire.
- Attendance
- 88%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Galashiels Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Galashiels 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 853 pupils and 12.2 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 65% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 6% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88% in 2024/25, and 39.5% 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 70% full.
96% 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.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Galashiels Rail Station, about 710 metres away (roughly a 9-minute walk).
5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Galashiels Academy Footpath (at), 170 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Galashiels Academy are St Margaret's RC Primary School (Galashiels) (0.1 miles), Burgh Primary School (0.2 miles), Balmoral Primary School (0.3 miles) and St Peter's Primary School (0.5 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Scottish Borders publishes both.
St Margaret's RC Primary School (Galashiels)Burgh Primary SchoolBalmoral Primary SchoolSt Peter's 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 Galashiels Academy's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
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.
1 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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 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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Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Galashiels Academy
What is the catchment area for Galashiels Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Galashiels 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 Scottish Borders. Scottish Borders publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Galashiels Academy?
If you live in Galashiels Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Scottish Borders will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Scottish Borders - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Galashiels 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. 1 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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Galashiels Academy?
Galashiels Academy is at Elm Row, Galashiels, SELKIRKSHIRE, SELKIRKSHIRE, TD1 3HU.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)