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Tim McNulty

Edinburgh with just one school in the top 10 performing secondary schools in Scotland

Only one Edinburgh school has made it into the top 10 of Scotland's top 100 state secondary schools, new league tables have revealed.

Rankings were sorted based on pupil performance across the country with schools ranked on the percentage of kids passing a set number of exams.

Schools whose kids received five or more Highers received a double-weighted score.

The league table - published in the The Sunday Times ' parents rankings yesterday - was also worked out by the number of pupils who got two Advanced Highers or five or more National 5s.

Edinburgh's only top 10 school is Boroughmuir High which sits at fourth with 71 per cent.

The next two schools, East Renfrewshire's Mearns Castle and Williamwood, both had a greater percentage of pupils hitting the five-Higher mark, 75 and 73, respectively.

But Boroughmuir's Advanced Higher rating of 33 per cent put it above the two Greater Glasgow schools, who both ranked 24.

Top spot was retained by Jordanhill School in Glasgow with the west end secondary boasting 83 per cent of pupils getting five or more awards at SCQF Level 6, the equivalent of Highers.

Stirlingshire's Dunblane High sits in second - with 76 per cent hitting the five-Higher mark - having climbed from ninth last year.

The statistics for individual schools were released by the Scottish government.

The measure recognised that deprived pupils generally perform worse than affluent ones.

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