Kinross High School, KINROSS
Kinross High School is a secondary school for pupils in Kinross.
- Attendance
- 89.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kinross High School in detail
School in Scotland
Kinross 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 863 pupils and 12.8 pupils per teacher.
5% of pupils are registered for free school meals and 42% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 89.3% in 2024/25, and 33.7% 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 good (A); the school was 67% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2022/23 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 97% 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 Kinross High School.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Loch Leven Community Campus (at), 80 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Kinross High School are Milnathort Primary School (0.6 miles) and Kinross Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Perth & Kinross publishes both.
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 Kinross High School in April 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 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
Kinross High School is a state school in Kinross, Scotland.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
Keep up with Kinross High School
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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 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
Kinross High School
Questions parents ask about Kinross High School
When was Kinross High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kinross High School in April 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kinross High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kinross 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 Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Kinross High School?
If you live in Kinross High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Kinross 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Kinross High School?
Kinross High School is at Loch Leven Community Campus, The Muirs, KINROSS, KINROSS, KY13 8FQ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)