Blairgowrie High School, Blairgowrie
Blairgowrie High School is a secondary school for pupils in Blairgowrie.
- Attendance
- 84.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Blairgowrie High School in detail
School in Scotland
Blairgowrie High School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 930 pupils and 12 pupils per teacher.
13% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 8% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 13% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 84.7% in 2024/25, and 40.5% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as poor (C); the school was 88% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Blairgowrie High School.
20 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Blairgowrie High School (at), 40 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Blairgowrie High School are Newhill Primary School (0.3 miles), St Stephen's RC Primary School (0.3 miles) and Rattray Primary School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.
Newhill Primary SchoolSt Stephen's RC Primary SchoolRattray Primary School
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Blairgowrie High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
Blairgowrie High School is a high school in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Blairgowrie High School has 916 students from Blairgowrie and the surrounding area.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
Keep up with Blairgowrie High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025.
The typical figure for schools in Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Blairgowrie High School
Questions parents ask about Blairgowrie High School
What is the catchment area for Blairgowrie High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Blairgowrie High School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Blairgowrie High School?
If you live in Blairgowrie High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Blairgowrie High School?
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025. The typical figure for schools in Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Blairgowrie High School?
Blairgowrie High School is at Beeches Road, Blairgowrie, Blairgowrie, PH10 6PW.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)