Tain Royal Academy is a secondary school in

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

, Scotland. The school first opened in 1813, with a new building opened in 1969 and an educational campus currently being built, due to open in 2018. Tain Royal Academy is part of the Golspie, Invergordon & Tain associated school group, consisting of Golspie High School, Invergordon Academy and Tain. it has a school roll of 590 pupils.

History

In 1809 a royal charter was signed by

King George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...

for an academy to be built in Tain. The school opened in 1813. A new school building was opened in 1969, extended in 1978. A £45million campus with facilities catering for three to 18 year olds is to be located on the existing Tain Royal Academy site. In 2015, these plans were approved by Highland Council and then Scottish Government Ministers.

Notable former pupils

* Dr Robert Cameron MacKenzie FRSE (1920-2000) Head of the

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Thomas Summers West Thomas Summers West (18 November 1927 – 9 January 2010) was a British chemist. Life Early years He was born in 1927 in Peterhead, Scotland and educated at Old Tarbat Public School in Portmahomack and then Tain Royal Academy. He then studied ...

, chemist. * Professor Sir John Fraser Bt.(1885-1947) Surgeon and principal of the University of Edinburgh

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* {{authority control Educational institutions established in 1813 Secondary schools in Highland (council area) 1813 establishments in Scotland