St Paul's RC Academy, Dundee
St Paul's RC Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Dundee. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 85.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Paul's RC Academy in detail
School in Scotland
St Paul'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.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 1062 pupils and 13 pupils per teacher.
32% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 53% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.
53% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 4% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 85.9% in 2024/25, and 49.4% 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 81% full.
88% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 93% 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 Paul's RC Academy are Baldragon Academy (0.8 miles), St John's RC High School (1.1 miles), Morgan Academy (1.2 miles) and Greenfield Academy (2.3 miles).
Baldragon AcademySt John's RC High SchoolMorgan AcademyGreenfield Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dundee Rail Station, about 2.1 miles away in a straight line.
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Old Glamis Road (at), 50 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Paul's RC Academy are Downfield Primary School (0.7 miles), Mill Of Mains Primary School (0.8 miles), Sidlaw View Primary School (0.8 miles) and St Peter & Paul RC School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Dundee City publishes both.
Downfield Primary SchoolMill Of Mains Primary SchoolSidlaw View Primary SchoolSt Peter & Paul RC 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 St Paul's RC Academy in March 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 6 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 4 on foot.
0 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 Dundee City is 10.5 (the median across 42 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 Paul's RC Academy
When was St Paul's RC Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Paul's RC Academy in March 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Paul's RC Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Paul'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 Dundee City. Dundee City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Paul's RC Academy?
If you live in St Paul's RC Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Dundee City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Dundee City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Paul's RC Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 6 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 4 on foot. 0 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 Dundee City is 10.5 (the median across 42 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Paul's RC Academy?
St Paul's RC Academy is at 90 Gillburn Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD3 0EH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)