Boroughmuir has been listed at 5th equal highest performing school in Scotland by the Sunday Times.
This is our highest ever position (6th 2 years ago)
Can I congratulate all our teachers, pupils and parents for their part in this success.
David Dempster, Head Teacher
THE TOP SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND
BEARSDEN ACADEMY IS SCOTLAND’S
STATE SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE YEAR
ROBERT GORDON’S COLLEGE
NAMED SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOL OF THE YEAR
The Sunday Times Parent Power schools guide has named Robert Gordon’s College and Bearsden Academy as Scotland’s Independent Secondary School of the Year and State Secondary School of the year respectively. Published in The Sunday Times and online this Sunday, November 27. The definitive guide – which can be found at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/parentpower – contains 2,000 top state and independent schools, searchable by postcode, town, local authority and name of school.
As well as assessment of all academic results on a school-by-school basis, Parent Power enables parents to compare the performance of a given school with other schools in the same town, local authority or nationally. There are also live links to school websites and schools’ most recent inspection reports.
Now in its 24th year of publication, Parent Power is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the UK’s best schools. Scottish state schools are ranked on their performance in Advanced Higher, Higher and National 5 examinations in summer 2015.
Scottish independent secondary schools are ranked in two tables, based on 2016 examination results, according to whether they follow the Scottish examination system or the A-level and GCSE structure used in the three other countries of the United Kingdom.
The seven independent schools following the A-level/GCSE examination system tables are ranked by the percentage of entries gaining A* to B grades at A-level (or their International Baccalaureate equivalent) this summer (which is given double weighting) and the percentage of entries returning A* and A grades at GCSE. The remaining independent secondary schools are ranked on the proportion of Advanced Higher and Highers examinations returning A and B grades (double-weighted) and the proportion of examinations securing the top grade at National 5.
The top ten state secondary schools in Scotland
(2015 position)
1 1 Jordanhill School
2 6 Mearns Castle High School
3 2 St Ninian’s High School, Giffnock
4 8 Bearsden Academy
5= 5 Williamwood High School
5= 13 Boroughmuir High School
7= 3 Cults Academy
7= 10 Douglas Academy
9= 4 Dunblane High School
9= 25 Glasgow Gaelic School
The Sunday Times Parent Power Scottish State Secondary School of the Year, Bearsden Academy, in East Dunbartonshire, is an outstanding school. This is the second time it has won our School of the Year title, this latest triumph coming five years after the first in 2011. However, this year sees the school hit a new high in The Sunday Times Parent Power rankings, coming in fourth overall.
The school’s recent HMIe inspection was also exceptional, highlighting the outstanding achievement of children between S4 and S6. It praised the “strong sense of partnership between all members of the school community” and “friendly, articulate and polite young people who contribute actively to the school and the wider community.” All this and outstanding examination results to boot.
“We positively challenge people to do everything better,“ says head teacher George Cooper.
Alastair McCall, editor of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, said: “Bearsden’s recent HMIe spoke volumes. The school is academically highly successful, but also committed to moulding children able to contribute beyond the examination hall. Scores of trips, visits and exchanges annually plus a huge range of extracurricular activities are designed to broaden minds and horizons.
“Very few schools get to win our School of the Year once; to do so twice inside five years is nothing short of exceptional. But doing and achieving the exceptional is Bearsden’s stock-in-trade.”
Top place in the Scottish state secondary school rankings this year – and every year since The Sunday Times first published its unique Scottish school rankings more than 15 years ago – is Jordanhill School, in Glasgow. It leads the pack in all three of the examination measures used in the rankings – Advanced Higher, Higher and National 5.
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