Crieff High School, CRIEFF
Crieff High School is a secondary school for pupils in Crieff.
- Attendance
- 87.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Crieff High School in detail
School in Scotland
Crieff 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 645 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.
11% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 53% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 87.3% in 2024/25, and 36.5% 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 good (A); the school was 67% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2019/20 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 93% 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 Crieff High School.
15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Monteath Street (at), 140 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Crieff High School are Crieff Primary School (0.3 miles), St Dominic's RC Primary School (0.4 miles) and Ardvreck School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.
Crieff Primary SchoolSt Dominic's RC Primary SchoolArdvreck 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 Crieff High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
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.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Crieff High School
Questions parents ask about Crieff High School
What is the catchment area for Crieff High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Crieff 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 Crieff High School?
If you live in Crieff 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 Crieff High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Crieff High School?
Crieff High School is at Strathearn Community Campus, Pittenzie Road, CRIEFF, CRIEFF, PH7 3JN.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)