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Ayr Academy's catchment area covers Newton-on-Ayr, Whitletts and the outlying villages of Coylton, Annbank, and Mossblown. Ayr Academy is one of the schools in South Ayrshire with high levels of economic deprivation and disadvantage, with more pupils attending Ayr Academy from deprived backgrounds than most other schools in the area. [3] [4]
William Wightman Beveridge (27 November 1858 – 26 January 1941) was a Scottish footballer and track and field athlete.. A Scottish athletics sprint champion born in Cumnock, Ayrshire, and educated at Ayr Academy, Beveridge was capped three times by the Scotland national football team between 1879 and 1880 while studying at the University of Glasgow and playing for Glasgow University F.C.
Kyle Academy is the fourth largest secondary school in South Ayrshire, with 824 pupils enrolled at the school in 2023–2024. [2] The school is the responsibility of South Ayrshire Council , with current head teacher Mary Byrne taking over from Lyndsay McRoberts, who was also joint head teacher of nearby Ayr Academy , in 2018.
The academy did not enter the Scottish Cup, but there were close links with the Ayr Eglinton club, which was formed in 1875. From the Ayr Academy cricket side, the King brothers [4] played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Scottish Cup, and of the XI which played against the Ayr Volunteers in the 1875–76 season, [5] two players (Sliman and Reid) played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Cup, and ...
He received his final cap against Presidents XV in 1973. [1] He returned to Ayr in the late 1970s, when he captained the team, and after retiring from playing, coached Ayr, taking them from the third division to the first. [2] He later worked as a P.E. teacher at Kyle Academy in Ayr. [4]
Wellington School is a private day school in Ayr, Scotland.The school was founded in 1836 as a school for girls, today the co-educational school provides both primary and secondary education between its Junior and Senior Schools for around 580 pupils between the ages of three and eighteen years.
The club was founded in October 1876, at a meeting at the Ayr Assembly Rooms, in which it was "unanimously agreed" to merge the Ayr Academy and Ayr Eglinton clubs, to form a new club, Ayr Academicals. The new club's secretary was to be the Eglinton secretary John Watt, with Eglinton captain John Holm captaining the Academicals side. [1]