Queen Anne High School, DUNFERMLINE
Queen Anne High School is a secondary school for pupils in Dunfermline.
- Attendance
- 88%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Queen Anne High School in detail
School in Scotland
Queen Anne 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 1803 pupils and 14 pupils per teacher.
17% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 50% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
15% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 14% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88% in 2024/25, and 40.4% 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 98% full.
97% 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Queen Anne High School are Dunfermline High School (1.4 miles), Inverkeithing High School (4.4 miles) and Beath High School (4.6 miles).
Dunfermline High SchoolInverkeithing High SchoolBeath High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dunfermline City Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.
26 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Queen Anne High School (stance 11), 60 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Queen Anne High School are McLean Primary School (0.5 miles), Pittencrieff Primary School (0.7 miles), Milesmark Primary School (0.8 miles) and Bellyeoman Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Fife publishes both.
McLean Primary SchoolPittencrieff Primary SchoolMilesmark Primary SchoolBellyeoman 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Queen Anne High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 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
Questions parents ask about Queen Anne High School
What is the catchment area for Queen Anne High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Queen Anne 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 Fife. Fife publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Queen Anne High School?
If you live in Queen Anne High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Fife will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Fife - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Queen Anne High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Queen Anne High School?
Queen Anne High School is at Pilmuir Street, Broomhead, DUNFERMLINE, DUNFERMLINE, KY12 0PQ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)