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Waid Academy

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational671 pupilsFife
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 meals15%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support45%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher11.6Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas2%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll671Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Waid Academy is a council school in Ky10 3gy for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 671 pupils. About 14 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

St Andrews Road, Anstruther, KY10 3GY, Ky10 3gy, KY10 3HD01334 659404blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/fi/waidacademyAll 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 Waid Academy.

Getting a place

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 Fife council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll671Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals15%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support45%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English2%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas2%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas5%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 6 (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.
146S1
107S2
121S3
114S4
107S5
76S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 70470420222023: 70070020232024: 68168120242025: 64964920252026: 6716712026
Since 2022: -33
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll671649681700704
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals14.5%14.0%13.1%11.7%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)45.0%41.4%44.1%34.0%34.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language1.6%1.5%1.6%1.1%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio11.612.012.711.311.211.610.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers58.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher11.6Scotland 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

No other schools of this phase within 8 km.

Questions parents ask

Is Waid Academy a good school?

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

How many pupils does Waid Academy have?

671 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
St Andrews Road, Anstruther, KY10 3GY, Ky10 3gy, KY10 3HD
Telephone
01334 659404
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/fi/waidacademy
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
Fife
Setting
Accessible small towns
SEED code
5426138
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from