Dundee City Council is to receive more than £2 million from the Scottish Government in a bid to raise pupil attainment levels.
It is one of seven councils to receive a share of £11 million of funding announced on Thursday.
Each council was told earlier this year they would be receiving funding and have drawn up individual plans on how the money will be used.
The other six local authorities to receive funding are Glasgow, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire and North Lanarkshire.
Dundee will receive £2,145,000.
The funding comes amid concerns over falling attaintment levels in Scotland’s schools.
The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy discovered that the performance of pupils in P4, P7 and S2 had decreased by five per cent over the past three years.
Just 78% of primary four pupils performed well or very well in readin, down from 83% in 2012.
Performance levels also fell in the P4 and P7 age groups.
Speaking on a visit to Lornshill Academy in Clackmannanshire, Scottish Government education secretary Angela Constance said the money would “intensify efforts” to raise attainment levels in schools.
She said: “We know school education in Scotland is getting better.
“Official figures published last month showed the percentage of young people leaving school to go into work, education or training is at a record high, with the vast majority of pupils are reaching SCQF levelthree literacy and numeracy or above.
“Our new Scottish Attainment Challenge will play a key role in delivering further improvements, from Glasgow, Scotland’s largest local authority, to here in Clackmannanshire, the ‘wee’ county.
“Good things are happening in all seven of these local authorities, and more widely across Scotland, but our fund will intensify efforts to drive improvement where it is needed, with a sharper focus on earlier intervention to close the attainment gap.
“Through measures such as this fund, the provisions in our Education (Scotland) Bill and the development of a National Improvement Framework, we will do all we can to raise attainment and give our young people the best start possible.”
Stewart Hunter convener of Dundee City Council’s education committee said: “We are delighted that Dundee has put forward a successful bid to secure this important funding.
“We have a list of priorities which the executive director and his team will be discussing in detail with schools across the city at the start of the new school term in August.
“It is clear to us that this cash injection is a vehicle for improving the attainment of our young people and closing the attainment gap in Dundee.”