Kelso High School, ROXBURGHSHIRE

Kelso 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 551 pupils and 11.9 pupils per teacher.

12% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 60% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.

0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 11% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 89.5% in 2024/25, and 32.5% 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 good (A); the school was 98% full.

95% of pupils who left in 2018/19 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 96% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

From the headteacher's welcome: "Kelso is a small market town in the beautiful border country of Scotland. Kelso High School provides secondary education for the pupils of the town and the surrounding countryside. There is lots of information here about the school, past and present."

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Kelso High School.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Mercers Court footpath (at), 110 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Kelso High School are Edenside Primary School (0.4 miles), Broomlands Primary School (0.6 miles) and Ednam Primary School (1.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Scottish Borders publishes both.