St John's RC Academy, PERTH
St John's RC Academy is an all-through school for pupils in Perth. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 86.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St John's RC Academy in detail
School in Scotland
St John's RC 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.
St John's RC Academy has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 649 pupils and 12.5 pupils per teacher.
13% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 69% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 45% speak English as an additional language.
27% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 12% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 86.7% in 2024/25, and 39.8% 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 good (A); the school was 77% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2023/24 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to St John's RC Academy are Perth Grammar School (0.2 miles), Perth Academy (1.6 miles), Perth High School (1.7 miles) and Bertha Park High School (2 miles).
Perth Grammar SchoolPerth AcademyPerth High SchoolBertha Park High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Perth Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Johns Academy (at), 100 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St John's RC Academy are St Ninian's Episcopal Primary School (0.5 miles), Riverside Primary School (0.6 miles), Goodlyburn Primary School (0.8 miles) and Tulloch Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.
St Ninian's Episcopal Primary SchoolRiverside Primary SchoolGoodlyburn Primary SchoolTulloch 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find St John's RC Academy's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot.
2 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 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 St John's RC Academy
What is the catchment area for St John's RC Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St John's RC 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 Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St John's RC Academy?
If you live in St John's RC Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St John's RC Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot. 2 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St John's RC Academy?
St John's RC Academy is at North Inch Community Campus, Gowans Terrace, PERTH, PERTH, PH1 5BF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)