About Alloa Academy
Alloa Academy is a six year comprehensive school serving the town of Alloa in Clackmannanshire. Its roll is slightly rising with over 800 pupils. It serves the town of Alloa only and has four primary schools associated with it: Claremont, Sunnyside, Park and St John's. It also welcomes pupils from St Mungo's Primary. The school currently has 64.4 teaching staff. The school is truly comprehensive and the pupil intake varies from a very middle class area to an area of severe deprivation.
Alloa is an industrial town, and while the amount of industry has receded in the past, there is substantial industry still in the area including glass making.
The town is situated between Stirling and Kincardine on the north of the river Forth and is easily reached from Stirling (7 miles) by the A907 or from Lothian and Falkirk by the M9, M876 and the new Clackmannanshire Bridge or from Fife directly from Dunfermline.
Pupils receive a broad curriculum in S1/2 with setting of pupils in various subjects possible from the start of S1. Pupils follow the recognised path in S3/4 involving Standard Grades although some SQA Higher Still courses are also on offer in certain subjects. A broad selection of Higher Courses are on offer for S5/6 and all levels of Higher Still courses are offered in most subject areas. The school has very good relationships with Forth Valley College in Alloa.
The school has adopted a positive approach to its pupils and is happy to praise them at every opportunity and is in the forefront of development of positive discipline structures. It has also introduced an assertive discipline policy to all classrooms which combines known and agreed standards with praise and reward. This policy has been responsible for the school winning several awards including the CBI Celebration Bus 2001, Barclays New Futures Awards 2001 and the Scottish Schools Ethos Award 2002/03 and highly commended in the Scottish Education Awards 2005.
The building itself was opened in February 2009 and everything in the building is brand new including all computers, desks and chairs.
Further information about Alloa Academy and its policies is available in the documents section of the website.
Contact information
For further information about this page please contact:
School Administrator
Alloa Academy
Bowhouse Road
Alloa
FK10 1DN
Tel: 01259 214979 Fax: 01259 211022
Email: alloa@edu.clacks.gov.uk
Or use the on-line contact form.