Greenwood Academy, IRVINE
Greenwood Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Irvine.
- Attendance
- 87.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Greenwood Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Greenwood 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 1415 pupils and 13.8 pupils per teacher.
31% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 40% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
33% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 7% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 87.2% in 2024/25, and 44.1% 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 85% full.
97% 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Greenwood Academy are Irvine Royal Academy (2.1 miles), Marr College (4.2 miles) and Kilwinning Academy (4.3 miles).
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Irvine Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Greenwood Academy (at), 230 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Greenwood Academy are Elderbank Primary School (0.3 miles), Dreghorn Primary School (0.8 miles), St John Ogilvie Primary School (0.8 miles) and St Mark's Primary School (1.1 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; North Ayrshire publishes both.
Elderbank Primary SchoolDreghorn Primary SchoolSt John Ogilvie Primary SchoolSt Mark'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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Greenwood Academy in April 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
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
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 6 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
2 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 North Ayrshire is 4 (the median across 61 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 Greenwood Academy
When was Greenwood Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Greenwood Academy in April 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Greenwood Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Greenwood 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 North Ayrshire. North Ayrshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Greenwood Academy?
If you live in Greenwood Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and North Ayrshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to North Ayrshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Greenwood Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 6 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 2 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 North Ayrshire is 4 (the median across 61 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Greenwood Academy?
Greenwood Academy is at Dreghorn, IRVINE, IRVINE, KA11 4HL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)