Over 95 per cent of our pupils go on to study degree courses on leaving The Academy. As an independent school, The Academy is free to choose courses of study which it considers most beneficial for its pupils. We combine traditional teaching methods with the best of modern techniques in order to meet the challenge of today’s courses. You will find details of courses studied at each level of the Senior School in the Department pages of this site.

In Higher exams pupils are usually presented for five subjects. However, a number of pupils achieve six or seven Highers. In the summer of 2006 Samira Rudig-Sotomayor gained seven Highers, all A passes. She was the only person in the entire country to achieve such a high standard and was awarded the Scottish Qualifications Authority gold award for academic excellence in their annual awards ceremony. Samira was offered a place at Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, but chose to go to Harvard.

The exam results of The Academy are available to view in detail, providing a comparison by subject and by year:

• Statistics
• Statistics (Graphical)
• Attainment Statistics (SEED)