Montrose Academy

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Montrose Academy in November 2024 and identified significant weaknesses in core educational processes. The report states that the school’s work in “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” is evaluated as “weak”. Consequently, the inspectors have determined that the school requires “additional support and more time to make necessary improvements” and will return for a further inspection within one year.

Strengths

• Young people are described as “welcoming and keen to discuss their learning”.
• Pupils benefit from an “increasing range of wider achievement activities” that help “promote a strong community identity with Montrose”.
• Young people with “complex and severe needs” are receiving “high quality personalised support”.

Areas to improve

• Staff must develop a “shared understanding of high quality learning, teaching and assessment” to provide more engaging and active learning experiences.
• Staff require a “clearer understanding of national assessment standards” to ensure tasks are set at the appropriate level of difficulty.
• Senior leaders and staff must work to “raise attainment for all young people” and improve approaches to identifying those at risk of under-achievement, with a specific focus on “improving numeracy”.

Safeguarding

The provided report text does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.