In 2016, it had the third-best Higher level exam results in Scotland.

[2] Founded in 1845, it is the oldest continuously fully private school[3] in Glasgow.

In May 1845, William Campbell of Tullichewan convened a meeting in the Star Hotel in George Square with Free Church ministers to discuss establishing "an Academic Institution in the City".

[4] The Scottish Rugby Union was founded on Monday 3 March 1873 at a meeting held at The Glasgow Academy.

[5] The school war memorial was designed by former pupil Alexander Nisbet Paterson in 1922.