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Leith Academy

Leith Academy is a state school in , . It currently educates around 1000 pupils and around 2,800 part-time adult learners. Mike Irving has been head teacher since August 2017.
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  • Email: admin@leith.edin.sch.uk
  • Type: School
  • Description: secondary school in Leith, Edinburgh
  • Address: 20 Academy Park, Edinburgh, EH6 8JQ
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Easter Road and Dalmeny Street drill hall.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a football stadium located in the area of , Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. The stadium currently has an all-seated capacity of 20,421, which makes it the fifth-largest football stadium in Scotland. is situated 1,500 feet south of Leith Academy.

Arts center
Photo: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The in , was built as a military drill hall in 1901, and between 2003 and 2010 was redeveloped as community arts and education centre under the name The Out of the Blue Drill Hall. is situated 1,900 feet west of Leith Academy.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. is situated 1¼ miles north of Leith Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leith and Pilrig.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the historic port of the capital of Scotland, north of city centre on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It's now only a minor port and has lost much of its industry, to be replaced by retail, bistros and cobbled wharves.

Quarter
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is an area of , the capital of . The name probably derives from the long field on which a peel tower stood. There is evidence of a peel tower situated on an area of higher ground above the .

Suburb
is a suburb of in . It is best known for , a multi-purpose sports facility that opened as an international sports stadium in 1970.

Leith Academy

Latitude
55.96589° or 55° 57′ 57″ north
Longitude
-3.16551° or 3° 9′ 56″ west
Operator
City of Edinburgh Council
Open location code
9C7RXR8M+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23136698
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q6520376
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Leith Academy” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Leith Academy”
  • French: “Leith Academy”
  • German: “Leith Academy”
  • Hebrew: “תיכון ליית‘”
  • Swedish: “Leith Academy”
  • Welsh: “Academi Leith”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Leith Academy Sports Grounds and Scot Regia Hall.

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