Dollar Academy, founded in 1818 by Captain John McNabb, is a co-educational day and boarding school in Scotland. The open campus occupies a 70-acre (280,000 m2) site in the centre of the town of Dollar in Central Scotland, less than 40 minutes drive from the two main Scottish cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The school is located at the foot of the Ochil hills and surrounded by Clackmannanshire countryside.
While it has a reputation as one of the sportiest schools in Britain, Dollar Academy is, according to The Scotsman, Scotland's best-performing school academically. The 2012 SQA exam results saw a 92.5% pass rate at Higher, 61% of which were at grade A. An impressive 41 students achieved a clean sweep of five or more Highers at grade A. Dollar Academy has also outstanding art and music facilities, with several large scale public performances and exhibitions each year, including a Christmas concert staged at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
Dollar Academy students have a reputation for success in university entry in medicine, law, engineering and business studies. Over 40% of leavers each year go on to study one of these subjects, usually at Scottish universities such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, but also at leading English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge.
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