An independent day school for boys and girls

The Edinburgh Academy is an old established school, but we have always been willing to address the needs of modern society. We are after all educating the citizens of the twenty first century.

For almost 150 years the opportunities offered by The Edinburgh Academy were restricted to boys, but for four decades now our sixth form has been coeducational. Now coeducation has been extended to all age groups. Our Junior School became coeducational in 2007 and the Senior School followed in August 2008. We are confident that this change is for the benefit of both boys and girls.

Inspiration & Trust

If we are asked to encapsulate the ethos of The Edinburgh Academy in two words, what would those words be? 'Inspiration' would be the first and 'trust' would be the second. These are the keys to successful education, a process that it is really only possible to unlock on an individual basis.

A small school with small classes

This is a small school with small classes; your child is an individual here.

As far as possible a child's academic programme is tailored to fit him or her. We do not seek to force children into a pre-determined path. Each is helped to achieve in his own way. This requires time and patience, together with a high ratio of staff to students in order to ensure that teachers genuinely have time for each individual child.

Each boy and girl has strengths that they may not yet know; our job is to teach, to guide, and above all to encourage.

Commitment and Example

Each pupil is encouraged by personal commitment and by example. He or she will find good role models all around, both from teachers and from senior pupils, but those examples will be widely varied, not clones. Forget about figures showing the performance of the average child in a large school. Your child is not an average child; he or she is an individual person with unique talents and unique needs.