The Top 30 Scottish Schools by Advanced Highers

In this section we give you our own assessment of the Top 30 Scottish Schools doing Advanced Highers for 2009. These positions are compiled from the % of A + B grades scored at Advanced Highers. Note that this table EXCLUDES schools taking A / AS levels in Scotland, which are included in a separate table for Scottish schools. We use a minimum of 20 students for UK schools senior results. If we were to reduce this to 15 for the smaller class sizes in Scotland, then the table would be headed by Kilgraston School with 87.88%.

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	Adv Highers	Name	Day / Board	Boy / Girl	Day £	Board £
1	87.72	St George's School for Girls - Edinburgh	Both	Girls	10,470	20,970
2	82.50	Wellington School - Ayr	Day	Co-ed	NA	NA
3	80.00	St Margaret's School for Girls - Aberdeen	Day	Girls	9,537	NA
4	77.71	George Watson's College - Edinburgh	Day	Co-ed	9,159	NA
5	77.20	Dollar Academy - Clackmannanshire	Both	Co-ed	9,441	21,546
6	74.36	Glasgow Academy	Day	Co-ed	8,625	NA
7	73.77	Glasgow High School	Day	Co-ed	8,322	NA
8	73.25	Mary Erskine School - Edinburgh	Both	Girls	8,490	16,938
9	72.83	George Heriot's School - Edinburgh	Day	Co-ed	9,102	NA
10	71.43	Dundee - High School of	Day	Co-ed	9,486	NA
11	70.21	St Aloysius' College - Glasgow	Day	Co-ed	8,010	NA
12	70.00	Stewart's Melville College - Edinburgh	Both	Boys	8,490	16,938
13	69.23	St Columba's School - Kilmacolm	Day	Co-ed	8,580	NA
14	66.67	Kelvinside Academy - Glasgow	Day	Co-ed	8,856	NA
14 =	66.67	Morrison's Academy - Crieff	Day	Co-ed	9,324	NA
16	64.81	Albyn School - Aberdeen	Day	Co-ed	9,360	NA
17	60.42	Craigholme School - Glasgow	Day	Girls	8,634	NA
18	59.29	Robert Gordon's College - Aberdeen	Day	Co-ed	8,950	NA
19	58.93	Hamilton College - Lanarkshire	Day	Co-ed	7,440	NA
20	57.34	Hutcheson's Grammar School - Glasgow	Day	Co-ed	8,411	NA
21	50.91	St Margaret's School - Edinburgh	Day	Girls (Boys 1-8)	NA	NA

Note.1. Sometimes there are a few gaps in our data, because the information is not freely available or a school will not supply it. In general this applies to lower graded schools in the TOP 30. Sometimes grades improve as a result of appeals on exam results and we will update the data periodically. We encourage all schools to supply corrections or additions (click here)

Note 2. We do not include results for schools with less than 20 candidates.

Note 3. Exam results are not the only criteria by which to judge a school (read our eGuide on selection factors click here). Indeed some of the schools in this TOP 30 table are quite selective on their admissions. Be aware your child may not necessarily thrive in a high pressure academic environment – take advice.