Perth Academy, Perth

Perth 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.

Perth Academy offers Gaelic-medium education.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 955 pupils and 11.7 pupils per teacher.

12% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 46% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.

8% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 30% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 83.5% in 2024/25, and 48.9% 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 78% full.

96% of pupils who left in 2024/25 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.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Perth Academy are Perth High School (0.4 miles), Perth Grammar School (1.4 miles), St John's RC Academy (1.6 miles) and Bertha Park High School (2.4 miles).

The nearest railway station is Perth Rail Station, about 1160 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

22 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Academy (at), 80 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Perth Academy are Viewlands Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Oakbank Primary School (0.3 miles), Craigie Primary School (0.6 miles) and Inch View Primary and Nursery School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.