Aspire Together, Achieve Together (2018–) Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly (1898–2018)
Established
c. 1630; 394 years ago (1630) (as Kilmarnock Burgh School)
Founder
Kilmarnock Burgh Council
Local authority
East Ayrshire Council
Head Teacher
David Rose (2015–present)
Staff
148 Teaching and non-teaching [1]
Gender
Mixed, co-educational
Age
11 to 17
Enrolment
1357[2][3]
Houses
Fleming, Burns, Orr, Wallace
Colour(s)
Rival
Historically James Hamilton Academy
Publication
The Goldberry, 1888–1954, 2018
Affiliated schools
James Hamilton, Loanhead, Whatriggs and Onthank primary schools
Blog
Kilmarnock Academy Blog
Kilmarnock Academy (Scottish Gaelic: Acadamaidh Chille Mheàrnaig), formerly Kilmarnock Burgh School, is an 11–17 co-educational state-funded secondary school in Kilmarnock, Scotland, currently serving in its third location on Sutherland Drive in the New Farm Loch area of the town.[4] Previous sites for Kilmarnock Academy include Green Street, erected in 1876, and Elmbank Drive, erected in 1898. The school can be traced back to the 1630s when it was known as 'Kilmarnock Burgh School'.[5] In 2022, it was ranked as the 233rd best performing state school in Scotland, an increase from 247th in the 2021 league table rankings.[6]
Kilmarnock Academy is one of a few schools in the UK, and the first school in Scotland, to have educated several Nobel laureates: Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, and John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Kilmarnock Academy thus matches Eton College in the number of Nobel laureate graduates.[7]
The current head teacher is David Rose who was appointed in June 2015 on an acting basis,[8] and was made permanent Head Teacher of Kilmarnock Academy (the newly formed school following merger with James Hamilton Academy) in April 2017.[9]
Kilmarnock (/kɪlˈmɑːrnək/ kil-MAR-nək; Scots: Kilmaurnock; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Mheàrnaig, IPA: [kʲʰiːʎ ˈvaːɾnəkʲ]) is a town and former burgh in East...
Academy Grange Academy Kilmarnock Academy Loudoun Academy Robert Burns Academy St Joseph's Academy Stewarton AcademyKilmarnock is home to a campus of Ayrshire...
Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to KilmarnockAcademy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution...
September 1977. It closed on 29 March 2018 and was incorporated into KilmarnockAcademy. The final school roll as of March 2018 was 635 pupils, despite there...
McIlvanney was born in Kilmarnock on 25 November 1936, the youngest of four children of a former miner, and attended school at KilmarnockAcademy. He went on to...
John Muir, the Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He was educated at KilmarnockAcademy, the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and Haileybury College...
operator in a mobile signals unit in Burma and India. He was educated at KilmarnockAcademy and as a youth earned a private pilot's licence through the Air Training...
Scotland, the son of Wright Atha, he was educated at KilmarnockAcademy, a state secondary school in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. He read physics and maths at Glasgow...
in Kilmarnock the son of John Cuthbertson FRSE (1859–1933) a teacher in the fields of both mining and agriculture. David was educated at Kilmarnock Academy...
the rest of his life. At the age of 13, Boyd Orr won a bursary to KilmarnockAcademy, a significant achievement as such bursaries were then rare. The new...
Service. Dunnett was born in 1877 in Kilmarnock, to William Dunnett, a minister. He attended KilmarnockAcademy, and then University of Edinburgh from...
of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland and was created in the late 1960s by a number of builders to accommodate the growing population of Kilmarnock. New...
bricklayer, whilst her mother was a hosiery worker. Macklin attended KilmarnockAcademy. Macklin purchased The KLIN Group in 2004 and became chief executive...
Hertfordshire East until 1999. Kerr was born in Scotland, and educated at KilmarnockAcademy, the London School of Economics and Essex University. He then became...
from a schism of the wider Presbyterian church. He was schooled at KilmarnockAcademy and then attended the University of Glasgow between 1817 and 1823...
his orphaned grandchildren. Dunsmuir was schooled locally at the KilmarnockAcademy and then at the Paisley Mercantile and Mechanical School, a training...
biology. He was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1898. He was educated at KilmarnockAcademy. In the First World War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal...
of Matthew Young and his wife, Mary Stirling. He was educated at KilmarnockAcademy. His studies at Glasgow University were disrupted by the war. In the...
educated at Hillhead Primary school then James Hamilton Academy. He transferred across to KilmarnockAcademy for a session when his brother William started there...
1835 in Bank Street, Kilmarnock. He was the second child of Jean (born Murdoch) and Dr Hugh Smith. He attended KilmarnockAcademy and went on to spend...
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