Perth Grammar School, Perth

Perth Grammar School 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 720 pupils and 10.9 pupils per teacher.

22% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 56% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.

20% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 16% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 86.1% in 2024/25, and 40.2% 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 61% full.

95% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The school day runs from 8:50am to 3:35pm.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Perth Grammar School are St John's RC Academy (0.2 miles), Perth Academy (1.4 miles), Perth High School (1.5 miles) and Bertha Park High School (1.8 miles).

The nearest railway station is Perth Rail Station, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Osprey Drive (opposite), 20 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Perth Grammar School are Riverside Primary School (0.4 miles), St Ninian's Episcopal Primary School (0.5 miles), Goodlyburn Primary School (0.6 miles) and Tulloch Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.