Inverkeithing High School, Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing 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 1607 pupils and 14.3 pupils per teacher.

16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 56% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.

4% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 27% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 89.4% in 2024/25, and 35.2% 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 poor (C); the school was 100% full.

100% 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.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Inverkeithing High School are Dunfermline High School (3.3 miles), Queensferry Community High School (3.3 miles) and Queen Anne High School (4.4 miles).

The nearest railway station is Inverkeithing Rail Station, about 670 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Curlew Way (opposite), 30 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Inverkeithing High School are Inverkeithing Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Park Road Primary School (1 mile), Donibristle Primary School (1.1 miles) and St John's R C Primary School (1.4 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Fife publishes both.