Westhill Academy, ABERDEENSHIRE
Westhill Academy is a secondary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 93.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Westhill Academy in detail
School in Scotland
Westhill 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 909 pupils and 12.6 pupils per teacher.
37% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 93.9% in 2024/25, and 16.4% 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 91% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Westhill Academy in its own words
In its own words: "As part of our improvement plan for 2022-2024 we worked with pupils, parents and staff to define our school vision, values and aims. We gathered the views of pupils through pupil councils, class based tasks, assemblies and workshops."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Westhill Academy are Bucksburn Academy (4 miles), Hazlehead Academy (4.2 miles), Cults Academy (4.4 miles) and Dyce Academy (5.3 miles).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Westhill Academy.
11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fare Park Drive, 80 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Westhill Academy are Crombie School (under 0.1 miles), Westhill Primary School (0.2 miles) and Elrick School (0.5 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Aberdeenshire publishes both.
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 Westhill Academy in December 2024.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Westhill Academy is an Aberdeenshire Council secondary school in Westhill, near Aberdeen, Scotland, serving the Westhill, Elrick and Skene areas of Aberdeenshire. Its main feeder schools are Westhill Primary, Crombie Primary School, Elrick Primary and Skene Primary.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Westhill Academy
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 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
Westhill Academy
Questions parents ask about Westhill Academy
When was Westhill Academy last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Westhill Academy in December 2024. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Westhill Academy?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Westhill 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Westhill Academy?
If you live in Westhill Academy's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Westhill Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Westhill Academy?
Westhill Academy is at Hays Way, Westhill, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB32 6XZ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)