Lockerbie Academy, DUMFRIESSHIRE
Lockerbie Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Dumfriesshire.
- Attendance
- 88.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Lockerbie Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Lockerbie 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 692 pupils and 13.5 pupils per teacher.
19% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 53% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 1% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.5% in 2024/25, and 34.4% 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 62% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 97% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Lockerbie Rail Station, about 610 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bowling Club (opposite), 90 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 Lockerbie Academy in December 2025.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
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 Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 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 Lockerbie Academy
When was Lockerbie Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Lockerbie Academy in December 2025.
What is the catchment area for Lockerbie Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Lockerbie 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 Dumfries & Galloway. Dumfries & Galloway publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Lockerbie Academy?
If you live in Lockerbie Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Dumfries & Galloway will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Dumfries & Galloway - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Lockerbie 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 Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Lockerbie Academy?
Lockerbie Academy is at Glasgow Road, Lockerbie, DUMFRIESSHIRE, DUMFRIESSHIRE, DG11 2AT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)