Harris Academy, Dundee
Harris Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Dundee.
- Attendance
- 87.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Harris Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Harris 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 1399 pupils and 13.6 pupils per teacher.
24% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 8% speak English as an additional language.
31% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 25% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 87.8% in 2024/25, and 37.4% 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 93% 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 Harris Academy are St John's RC High School (1.4 miles), Morgan Academy (2.5 miles), St Paul's RC Academy (2.5 miles) and Baldragon Academy (2.8 miles).
St John's RC High SchoolMorgan AcademySt Paul's RC AcademyBaldragon Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dundee Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is West Park Road (opposite), 60 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Harris Academy are St Joseph's RC Primary School (0.6 miles), Victoria Park Primary School (0.6 miles), Blackness Primary School (0.7 miles) and Ancrum Road Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Dundee City publishes both.
St Joseph's RC Primary SchoolVictoria Park Primary SchoolBlackness Primary SchoolAncrum Road 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 Harris Academy in May 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
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
Harris Academy is a co-educational comprehensive school in the affluent residential area of West End of Dundee, Scotland. Harris Academy was founded in 1885 and is the oldest state school in Dundee.
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At a Glance
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Nursery
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- 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, 2 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 Dundee City is 10.5 (the median across 42 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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Questions parents ask about Harris Academy
When was Harris Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Harris Academy in May 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as very good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Harris Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Harris 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 Dundee City. Dundee City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Harris Academy?
If you live in Harris Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Dundee City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Dundee City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Harris 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, 2 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 Dundee City is 10.5 (the median across 42 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Harris Academy?
Harris Academy is at 470 - 472 Perth Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD2 1NL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)