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Aberdeen Grammar School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational1,369 pupilsAberdeenAberdeen City
School Chooser ScoreNot scoredScotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools, so we can't give its schools a score. Pupil numbers, free school meals, extra support, staffing and class sizes are below.
Pupils registered for free school meals12%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support42%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher12.1Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas3%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,369Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Aberdeen Grammar School is a council school in Aberdeen for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,369 pupils. About 12 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Skene Street, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB10 1HT01224 642299grammar.org.ukAll details

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by HM Inspectorate of Education. Its reports grade a few areas on a scale from excellent to unsatisfactory, but the grades aren't published as a list we can use.

Results

Scotland publishes no school-level exam results as open data.

Leaver attainment and destinations for individual schools appear only on the Scottish Government's School Information Dashboard, which cannot be reproduced here. Open the dashboard and search for Aberdeen Grammar School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Aberdeen City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 6.0 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

There is no entrance test. Every address in Scotland has a catchment primary and secondary school. If you want a different school, you ask the council for a place there (a placing request).

You apply through Aberdeen City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll1,369Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals12%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support42%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English22%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas3%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas52%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 5 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is bigger than S4, so the roll is likely to grow. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
267S1
269S2
269S3
212S4
192S5
160S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,1631,16320222023: 1,1731,17320232024: 1,2051,20520242025: 1,3101,31020252026: 1,3691,3692026
Since 2022: +206
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,3691,3101,2051,1731,163
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals12.3%7.8%8.5%8.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)41.7%40.5%39.0%37.3%33.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language21.8%19.4%21.5%26.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.112.911.213.012.512.813.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers113.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.1Scotland 12.1

Nearby schools

The closest secondary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Harlaw AcademyCouncil510 m1,174HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Machar AcademyCouncil1.3 miles1,032HMIE, no open dataCompare
Northfield AcademyCouncil1.6 miles746HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hazlehead AcademyCouncil2.4 miles1,077HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bridge Of Don AcademyCouncil2.7 miles810HMIE, no open dataCompare
Lochside AcademyCouncil3.1 miles1,205HMIE, no open dataCompare
Oldmachar AcademyCouncil3.1 miles992HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bucksburn AcademyCouncil3.3 miles975HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Aberdeen Grammar School a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Aberdeen Grammar School yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Aberdeen Grammar School have?

1,369 pupils aged 11 to 18 were on the roll in September 2025.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
Skene Street, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB10 1HT
Telephone
01224 642299
Website
www.grammar.org.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Secondary school, ages 11-18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
Aberdeen City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
5244439
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from