Secondary Schools Ranks in South Ayrshire

Our analysis of the latest published achievement data for eight South Ayrshire schools reveals that there were no schools in the top 50 secondary schools in Scotland. Five South Ayrshire schools were ranked in the top half of secondary schools in Scotland and there was one school in the bottom 50 secondary schools in Scotland. See Table 1

Data covering the Scottish Higher Examinations results for the academic year 2024-25 was downloaded from the Government website and combined with results from previous years to provide several years’ data for analysis. The 2026 dataset provided data for 355 secondary schools. This page summarises results for a single local authority. Summary data for Scotland as a whole is also available on this website – see links at bottom of the page.

South Ayrshire 2024-25 Tables and Catchment Area Maps

Table1: South Ayrshire Schools’ Performance Based on Scotland Ranks

a table showing the rank for each South Ayrshire secondary school from 2020/2021 to 2024/2025.

View the above table as an accessible HTML (screen reader friendly) version

Download
A download Table1 as a csv file from this link
Download a csv file with a full set of published data forSouth Ayrshire

South Ayrshire Schools’ Catchment Area Map

A map showing the location of secondary schools within the South Ayrshire area is shown (Figure 1a and 1b (non-denominational and denominational respectively). Catchment areas, where provided by the local authority are colour coded according to the rank of the secondary school. Note that areas on the map in grey (may look like white on some browsers) represent areas not uniquely allocated to a single school. This may arise when pupils from the area may be allocated to more than one school or in some cases may be due to missing data in the published map files.

Figure 1a: South Ayrshire Map Showing Non-Denominational Secondary School Ranks and Catchment Areas
Area hover and school marker pop up displays provide additional school information.
Zoom in using the + – tool and drag the image to move around.

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Figure 1b: South Ayrshire Map Showing Denominational Secondary School Ranks and Catchment Areas
Note: some LAs have no denominational schools.
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Notes on School Catchment Areas
Some local authorities do not make schools’ catchment areas available (i.e. areas on the map that are coloured pale grey) and the catchment areas for catholic schools are not always available.

School Locations
Individual schools are shown on the map black circles. If you click on the school marker a pop-up will appear with additional information.

Disclaimer
The catchment areas have been smoothed out a little in order to reduce the size of the web page download and will have slight differences. Parents should not rely on the datamap-scotland website to confirm the catchment area for any specific school or house within a zone as these can sometimes be very specific and may vary from data published by https://www.spatialhub.scot. Many authorities publish accurate street by street data on school catchment areas on their websites.

Sources and Methods

see methods section in Scottish Secondary School League Tables