Glenwood High School, Glenrothes
Glenwood High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glenrothes.
- Attendance
- 88.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Glenwood High School in detail
School in Scotland
Glenwood 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 885 pupils and 11.6 pupils per teacher.
33% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 66% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
43% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.2% in 2024/25, and 38.3% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 67% full.
94% 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Glenwood High School are Glenrothes High School (0.6 miles), Auchmuty High School (1.9 miles), Kirkcaldy High School (4.7 miles) and St Andrew's R C High School (5 miles).
Glenrothes High SchoolAuchmuty High SchoolKirkcaldy High SchoolSt Andrew's R C High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Markinch Rail Station, about 2.9 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Glenwood High School (adjacent), 100 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Glenwood High School are Southwood Primary School (0.3 miles), Newcastle Primary & Community School (0.5 miles), Leslie Primary School (0.6 miles) and Caskieberran Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Fife publishes both.
Southwood Primary SchoolNewcastle Primary & Community SchoolLeslie Primary SchoolCaskieberran 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 Glenwood High School in March 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Glenwood High School is a comprehensive, co-educational and non-denominational school serving the western part of the town of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland together with communities to the north and west.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 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
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Questions parents ask about Glenwood High School
When was Glenwood High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Glenwood High School in March 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Glenwood High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Glenwood 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 Fife. Fife publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Glenwood High School?
If you live in Glenwood High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Fife will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Fife - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Glenwood High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Glenwood High School?
Glenwood High School is at South Parks Road, Glenrothes, Glenrothes, KY6 1JX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)