Dunblane High School, Dunblane
Dunblane High School is a secondary school for pupils in Dunblane.
- Attendance
- 92.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Dunblane High School in detail
School in Scotland
Dunblane 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 853 pupils and 13.8 pupils per teacher.
35% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 68% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.1% in 2024/25, and 24.1% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 79% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Dunblane High School in its own words
In its own words: "Opened in 1974, Dunblane High School is a non-denominational six-year comprehensive school providing courses for pupils of all abilities at all stages. There is great interest in, and concern for, education in the area and we enjoy positive relationships with parents and others in the community. A very large proportion of our young people go on to higher education."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Dunblane High School are Wallace High School (3.5 miles) and St Modan's High School (5.2 miles).
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dunblane Rail Station, about 980 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is High School (at), 180 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Dunblane High School are Dunblane Primary School (0.5 miles), St Mary's Episcopal Primary School (0.9 miles) and Newton Primary School (1.3 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Stirling publishes both.
Dunblane Primary SchoolSt Mary's Episcopal Primary SchoolNewton 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Dunblane High School in March 2026.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 1 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 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
Dunblane High School
Questions parents ask about Dunblane High School
When was Dunblane High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Dunblane High School in March 2026. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as very good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Dunblane High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Dunblane 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 Stirling. Stirling publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Dunblane High School?
If you live in Dunblane High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Dunblane High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 1 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Dunblane High School?
Dunblane High School is at Old Doune Road, Dunblane, Dunblane, FK15 9EW.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)