Kinlochleven High School, ARGYLL
Kinlochleven High School is a secondary school for pupils in Argyll.
- Attendance
- 92%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kinlochleven High School in detail
School in Scotland
Kinlochleven 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.
Kinlochleven High School offers Gaelic-medium education.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 104 pupils and 5.4 pupils per teacher.
49% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 92% in 2024/25, and 25.4% 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 36% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2020/21 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.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Kinlochleven High School.
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is High School (at), 30 metres away.
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 Kinlochleven High School in April 2026.
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
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 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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Kinlochleven High School
Questions parents ask about Kinlochleven High School
When was Kinlochleven High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kinlochleven High School in April 2026.
What is the catchment area for Kinlochleven High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kinlochleven 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 Kinlochleven High School?
If you live in Kinlochleven 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 Kinlochleven High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 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 Kinlochleven High School?
Kinlochleven High School is at Riverside Road, Kinlochleven, ARGYLL, ARGYLL, PH50 4QG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)