Moffat Academy, Moffat
Moffat Academy is an all-through school for pupils in Moffat.
- Attendance
- 90.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Moffat Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Moffat 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.
Moffat Academy has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 231 pupils and 9.9 pupils per teacher.
15% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 55% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 90.9% in 2024/25, and 27.7% 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 43% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2022/23 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 Moffat Academy.
1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Academy (at), 190 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Moffat Academy's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
Moffat Academy is a school in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It educates children from nursery to Secondary 6.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Moffat Academy
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 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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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Moffat Academy
Questions parents ask about Moffat Academy
What is the catchment area for Moffat Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Moffat 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 Moffat Academy?
If you live in Moffat 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 Moffat Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 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 Moffat Academy?
Moffat Academy is at Jeff Brown Drive, Moffat, Moffat, DG10 9QL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)