- What did Education Scotland judge Queen Margaret Academy's quality indicator to be?
- Education Scotland judged Queen Margaret Academy's quality indicator as Good (4 of 6) at its inspection in November 2016, on Education Scotland's own scale.
- How many pupils attend Queen Margaret Academy?
- Queen Margaret Academy has 760 pupils on roll.
- Where is Queen Margaret Academy located?
- Queen Margaret Academy is located in KA7 3TL, South Ayrshire.
- How do I apply to Queen Margaret Academy?
- In Scotland you enrol your child at the catchment school for your home address, and each council sets its own enrolment dates. If Queen Margaret Academy is not your catchment school, you can make a placing request to South Ayrshire Council to ask for a place there. By law, a placing request for a child starting P1 or S1 that reaches the council by 15 March must be answered by 30 April; check the council's admissions pages for its own dates.
- Does Queen Margaret Academy have a religious character?
- Yes — Queen Margaret Academy has a religious character of Roman Catholic. Faith criteria may apply to admissions; check the school's oversubscription policy for details.
- How are S1 places decided at Queen Margaret Academy?
- When Queen Margaret Academy has more applications than places for 2026-27, they are offered in a published order of priority: 1. Resident in the school's delineated area — Children will usually go to the school in their catchment area; the parent or carer's address decides the child's catchment school, but living in the catchment area does not guarantee a place. Where there are more placing requests for a school than there are spaces available the criteria are used in the first instance to allocate places to children or young people who live within the school's delineated area, after which the same criteria allocate places to those who live outwith it. Tie-break: In relation to criteria 1 to 4, if there are more applications being considered than there are places available as each stage of priority criteria is being applied, a ballot will be held to determine the successful applications. When a ballot is required it is carried out by officers within South Ayrshire Council's People Directorate and independently verified.
- What is the largest ethnic background at Queen Margaret Academy?
- According to the Scottish Government Pupil Census 2025-26, 81.1% of pupils at Queen Margaret Academy are recorded as White British. The full ethnic breakdown across all groups is available on the Pupils tab.