Inverness High School, Inverness
Inverness High School is a secondary school for pupils in Inverness.
- Attendance
- 80.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Inverness High School in detail
School in Scotland
Inverness 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 483 pupils and 11 pupils per teacher.
30% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 75% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 22% speak English as an additional language.
63% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 2% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 80.8% in 2024/25, and 57.9% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 71% full.
84% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 92% 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 Inverness High School are Charleston Academy (0.8 miles), Millburn Academy (1.1 miles), Inverness Royal Academy (1.9 miles) and Culloden Academy (4.2 miles).
Charleston AcademyMillburn AcademyInverness Royal AcademyCulloden Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverness Rail Station, about 930 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
18 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Rangemore Road (after), 120 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Inverness High School are Central Primary School (0.2 miles), Bishop Eden's Primary School (0.3 miles), St Joseph's RC Primary (0.3 miles) and Dalneigh Primary School (0.4 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Highland publishes both.
Central Primary SchoolBishop Eden's Primary SchoolSt Joseph's RC PrimaryDalneigh 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 Inverness High School in February 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changeweak
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionweak
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementweak
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
Inverness High School is a secondary school on Montague Row in Inverness, Scotland.
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At a Glance
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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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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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Questions parents ask about Inverness High School
When was Inverness High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Inverness High School in February 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as weak; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as weak and raising attainment and achievement as weak, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Inverness High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Inverness 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Inverness High School?
If you live in Inverness High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Inverness 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Inverness High School?
Inverness High School is at Montague Row, Inverness, Inverness, IV3 5DZ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)