Tain Royal Academy is a secondary school in

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...

, Scotland. The school first opened in 1813, with a new building opened in 1969 and an educational campus currently being built, due to open in 2025. Tain Royal Academy is part of the Golspie, Invergordon & Tain associated school group, consisting of

Golspie High School Golspie High School () is a secondary school in Golspie, in Sutherland in the north of Scotland. In 2023 there were 264 pupils on the school roll. Pupils are from a catchment area that is particularly vast, stretching as far north as Kinbrace, ...

, Invergordon Academy and Tain. it has a school roll of 590 pupils.

History

In 1809 a royal charter was signed by

King George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and ...

for an academy to be built in

Tain Tain ( ) is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland. Etymology The name derives from the nearby River Tain, the name of which comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'flow'. The Gaelic n ...

. The school opened in 1813. A new school building was opened in 1969, extended in 1978. A £45million campus with facilities catering for three to 18 year olds is to be located on the existing Tain Royal Academy site. In 2015, these plans were approved by

Highland Council The Highland Council (' ) is the local authority for Highland, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. The council is based at the Highland Council Headquarters in Inverness. History The Highland area had been created as an administrative a ...

and then

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Ministers.

Notable former pupils

* Dr Robert Cameron MacKenzie

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(1920-2000) Head of the

Macaulay Institute The Macaulay Institute, formally the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and sometimes referred to simply as The Macaulay, was a research institute based at Aberdeen in Scotland, which is now part of the James Hutton Institute. Its work cov ...

Thomas Summers West Thomas Summers West (18 November 1927 – 9 January 2010) was a British chemist. Life Early years He was born in 1927 in Peterhead, Scotland and educated at Old Tarbat Public School in Portmahomack and then Tain Royal Academy. He then studied ...

, chemist. * Professor Sir John Fraser Bt.(1885-1947) Surgeon and principal of the University of Edinburgh

References

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* {{authority control Educational institutions established in 1813 Secondary schools in Highland (council area) 1813 establishments in Scotland