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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]
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John Strawhorn (May 1922 – 7 August 1997) was a Scottish educator and historian. He was a teacher in Girvan, Newmilns, Kilmarnock, Cumnock and Ayr, and retired in 1982 as Assistant Rector at Ayr Academy.
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.
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.
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 ...
Elsie McBroom (née MacPhail), as of 2010, possibly the oldest surviving former pupil of Hamilton Academy; a graduate of the University of Glasgow and a former teacher of mathematics, Ayr, Scotland. Aged 100, news posted by South Ayrshire Council [166]