Millburn Academy, Inverness
Millburn Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Inverness.
- Attendance
- 88.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Millburn Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Millburn 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.
Millburn Academy offers Gaelic-medium education.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 1215 pupils and 13.8 pupils per teacher.
9% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 43% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
8% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 26% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.5% in 2024/25, and 38.9% 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 102% full.
96% 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.
Millburn Academy in its own words
In its own words: "Vision: Millburn Academy aims to develop resourceful, resilient, flexible and autonomous learners able to contribute productively to the 21st Century world. To recognise and develop as fully as possible the academic potential of all pupils by providing them with a broad balanced curriculum suited to their age, abilities and aptitudes."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Millburn Academy are Inverness High School (1.1 miles), Charleston Academy (1.9 miles), Inverness Royal Academy (2.3 miles) and Culloden Academy (3.1 miles).
Inverness High SchoolCharleston AcademyInverness Royal AcademyCulloden Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverness Rail Station, about 830 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Millburn Academy (outside), 140 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Millburn Academy are Crown Primary School (0.4 miles), Raigmore Primary School (0.4 miles), St Joseph's RC Primary (0.8 miles) and Central Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Highland publishes both.
Crown Primary SchoolRaigmore Primary SchoolSt Joseph's RC PrimaryCentral 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 Millburn Academy in June 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 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
Millburn Academy is a six-year secondary school in Inverness, Scotland. It serves the portion of Inverness east of the River Ness along with rural areas to the south of the city's reach, with a catchment area that includes the primary schools of Crown, Daviot, Drakies, Inshes, Raigmore and Strathdearn.
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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 Millburn Academy
When was Millburn Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Millburn Academy in June 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as 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 Millburn Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Millburn 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Millburn Academy?
If you live in Millburn Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Millburn Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Millburn Academy?
Millburn Academy is at Diriebught Road, Inverness, Inverness, IV2 3QR.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)