Jedburgh Grammar School, JEDBURGH
Jedburgh Grammar School is an all-through school for pupils in Jedburgh.
- Attendance
- 90.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Jedburgh Grammar School in detail
School in Scotland
Jedburgh 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.
Jedburgh Grammar School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 403 pupils and 10.4 pupils per teacher.
14% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 90.1% in 2024/25, and 31.9% 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 100% full.
92% of pupils who left in 2020/21 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.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Jedburgh Grammar School.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Jedburgh Schools Campus (near), 50 metres away.
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 Jedburgh Grammar School in June 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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.
About
Jedburgh Grammar School is a state secondary school in Jedburgh, Scotland, with around 440 pupils, 40 teaching staff, and 15 non-teaching staff.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Jedburgh Grammar School
Getting There
Bus Stops
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 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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Questions parents ask about Jedburgh Grammar School
When was Jedburgh Grammar School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Jedburgh Grammar School in June 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Jedburgh Grammar School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Jedburgh Grammar School 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 Jedburgh Grammar School?
If you live in Jedburgh Grammar School'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 Jedburgh Grammar School?
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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Jedburgh Grammar School?
Jedburgh Grammar School is at JEDBURGH GRAMMAR CAMPUS, PRIORS ROAD, JEDBURGH, JEDBURGH, TD8 6HH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)