Trinity Academy, Edinburgh
Trinity Academy Old Building
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| Established | 1893 |
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| Religion | Non denominational |
| Rector | Bryan Paterson |
| Location |
Craighall Avenue Edinburgh EH6 4RT Scotland Coordinates: 55°58′36″N 3°11′42″W / 55.97672°N 3.19503°W |
| Local authority | Edinburgh |
| Students | 811 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | trinity |
Trinity Academy is a state-run secondary school in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the border between Trinity and Leith, next to Victoria Park, and a short distance from the banks of the Firth of Forth at Newhaven.
Trinity Academy was formerly a Grammar school, prior to the abolition of the selective 11‑plus exam, which was normally taken in Primary 7 at age 12 years. It is fed from three main primary schools; Trinity Primary (which is immediately adjacent), Victoria Primary in Newhaven, and Wardie Primary in Wardie. The school colours are black and yellow.
On 4 September 1893, Craighall Road School was opened with Thomas Trotter, formerly of North Fort Street, as Rector. With a frontage deemed ‘of a superior kind to most other schools’ it had cost £18,850 and five shillings, (excluding the purchase of the land from the Laird of Bonnington, James Clerk-Rattray) and had electric bells and voice tubes connecting the Rector's room to the classes and gas lamps throughout.
The formal opening was carried out by Flora Stevenson on 1 February 1894. The Board intended making all the elementary departments fee-paying, waiving fees only for the secondary, but a dissenting member wanted free education and complained to the Scottish Office. He pointed to friction at Leith Academy, with those paying fees looking down on those who did not. The majority prevailed and fees were paid at Trinity until the comprehensive schooling debate, three-quarters of a century later.
In 1895 the first 127 pupils were presented for Leaving Certificates in Mathematics, Arithmetic, English, French – 81 successfully. In 1901 the school became Trinity Academy under the new Rector, Thomas Duncan. The Great War claimed seventy-one former pupils and two teachers out of some three hundred who served.
The school operates a house system and the three houses are Arran, Skye and Orkney.
Plans for a new block were again on the drawing board when the Second World War broke out. Many pupils were evacuated to Macduff on the Moray Firth until normal classes resumed in 1941. The following year Dr Albert Weir became Rector. In this war Trinity lost sixty-two former pupils.
Post-war landmarks during the rectorship of Alexander Neill between 1953 and 1969 were the completion of the new secondary block in March 1962 and the removal of the primary school from the huts at Bangholm to the new school on Newhaven Road in January 1968.
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