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Tim McNulty

Top 100 Scottish secondary schools ranked from best to worst

Scotland's top 100 state secondary schools have been revealed with Greater Glasgow taking the highest number of top spots.

Rankings were based on the performance of pupils across the country with schools ordered on the percentage of kids passing a certain number of exams.

Schools whose pupil's gained five or more Highers received a double-weighted score.

The table - published today in the The Sunday Times ' Parent Power rankings -  was also affected by the number of pupils who got two Advanced Highers or five or more National 5s.

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.

St Ninian's High in Glasgow's south side suburb of Giffnock making up the top three at 75 per cent.

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.

Gryffe High in Houston, Renfrewshire, climbed nine places to eighth with a Higher ranking of 70 per cent.

Glasgow's suburbs made up the rest of the top 10 with East Dunbartonshire schools Bearsden Academy in 7th (70 per cent), Douglas Academy of Milngavie in 9th (69 per cent) and Bishopbriggs Academy in 10th (66 per cent).

One school unfortunate to miss out on the upper reaches of the table is the Glasgow Gaelic School.

With 68 per cent of pupils hitting the five-Higher mark and 27 per cent getting two or more Advance Highers, it would have made the top 10.

But the bilingual school is placed 93rd as there are no National 5 statistics.

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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