Education, Education, Education

Moffat has a long tradition of schooling going back to the founding of the grammar school in 1639. Before the Education Act of 1872 there were small ‘private’ schools all over the town and in every nearby glen and village.

The choice was considerable…from the ‘Industrial School’ to ‘Miss Thomson’s Private Adventure Boarding Establishment and School for Young Ladies’, now under new management and thankfully with the simpler title of Beechwood! (illustrated above).

The Advent of State Education

Moffat has long recognised that education = future

Even when the State education system made free schooling available to every child Moffat continued to offer private education through several boarding schools of repute, the last closing in the late 1970’s.

Today Moffat Academy meets the town’s educational needs. Having occupied its present site since 1834 it offers all through schooling from nursery age to sixth year.  A new school for children of all ages is scheduled to be built, starting in 2007.

The neighbouring village of Beattock also has a primary school with nursery provision.