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Harris Academy

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational1,399 pupilsDundeeDundee 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 meals24%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support52%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher13.6Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas31%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,399Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Harris Academy is a council school in Dundee for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,399 pupils. About 24 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

470 - 472 Perth Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD2 1NL01382 435700harrisacademy.ea.dundeecity.sch.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 Harris Academy.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Dundee City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 15 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 Dundee City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll1,399Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals24%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support52%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English8%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas31%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas25%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 10 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to S4 are about the same size. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
263S1
254S2
259S3
255S4
213S5
155S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,3351,33520222023: 1,3451,34520232024: 1,3381,33820242025: 1,4061,40620252026: 1,3991,3992026
Since 2022: +64
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,3991,4061,3381,3451,335
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals23.6%22.7%22.4%23.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)51.5%53.2%38.0%45.2%52.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language7.6%6.6%6.4%5.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.613.813.013.212.713.813.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers103.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.6Scotland 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
St John's RC High SchoolCouncil1.4 miles1,285HMIE, no open dataCompare
Morgan AcademyCouncil2.5 miles997HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Paul's RC AcademyCouncil2.5 miles1,062HMIE, no open dataCompare
Baldragon AcademyCouncil2.8 miles792HMIE, no open dataCompare
Greenfield AcademyCouncil4.2 miles1,497HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Harris Academy a good school?

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

How many pupils does Harris Academy have?

1,399 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
470 - 472 Perth Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD2 1NL
Telephone
01382 435700
Website
harrisacademy.ea.dundeecity.sch.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
Dundee City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
5329531
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from