Mackie Academy, KINCARDINESHIRE
Mackie Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Kincardineshire.
- Attendance
- 91.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Mackie Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Mackie 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 1129 pupils and 13.3 pupils per teacher.
10% of pupils are registered for free school meals and 26% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 91.9% in 2024/25, and 25.6% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 79% full.
94% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Mackie Academy in its own words
In its own words: "Mackie Academy: a productive and creative learning community for all and their future pathways Working towards all forms of attainment and achievement in our school community being excellent Ensuring sustained positive destinations for all our learners as and when they leave our learning community"
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stonehaven Rail Station, about 540 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Mackie Academy (at), 90 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Mackie Academy are Arduthie School (0.5 miles), Mill O'Forest School (0.6 miles) and Dunnottar School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Aberdeenshire publishes both.
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 Mackie Academy in May 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
Mackie Academy is a secondary school in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. As of the 2023/2024 school year, Mackie Academy had roughly 1,112 pupils and 80 teaching staff.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
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Getting There
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- 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, 0 serious and 2 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 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
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Questions parents ask about Mackie Academy
When was Mackie Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Mackie Academy in May 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Mackie Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Mackie 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Mackie Academy?
If you live in Mackie Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Mackie 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, 0 serious and 2 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mackie Academy?
Mackie Academy is at Slug Road, Stonehaven, KINCARDINESHIRE, KINCARDINESHIRE, AB39 3DF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)