With over two centuries spent serving the educational needs of the pupils who come through our doors, we’ve created an environment where young minds can thrive.

Pupils from Primary 1-5 begin their education at Dollar in what we refer to as our Prep School. With outstanding teaching, small class sizes and access to the excellent facilities of the Senior School, we believe there is no better way for a child to begin their education.

Dollar offers the widest range of SQA subjects in Scotland and our super-curriculum includes modules in subjects as diverse as Microbiology, Astronomy, Philosophy and Italian along with opportunities for coding, robotics, debating, cooking and Classics.

Welcome to the 50s with the cast of Dollar Academy! Join Sandy and Danny as they take you through a tale of high school rivalry, teenage angst and romance with a soundtrack of sing-a-long classics including Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted, and Grease Lightnin’. Come along and join us for some fifties fun in ‘Grease’ – […]

Helen Stone’s mother Emmy Golding, née Kaufmann, was born in a small village near Cologne in Germany just as World War One was beginning. The 12 Jewish families in her village, who had lived there for many generations, were well integrated and yet maintained their religious identity. The insidious rise of the Nazis from 1933 […]

Great importance is attached at Dollar Academy to courtesy, integrity, good manners, discipline and respect for the needs of others. Good discipline is an essential ingredient of a good school.