Selkirk High School, Selkirk
Selkirk High School is a secondary school for pupils in Selkirk.
- Attendance
- 89.6%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Selkirk High School in detail
School in Scotland
Selkirk 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.
Selkirk High School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 395 pupils and 10.8 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 64% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 89.6% in 2024/25, and 33.3% 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 96% full.
93% of pupils who left in 2024/25 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.
Selkirk High School in its own words
In its own words: "Our ambition at Selkirk High School is ‘to empower every student to achieve their unique and magnificent potential whatever their background, ability or identity’. Selkirk High School is for everyone. We strive to ensure all our students know how to be safe, well and happy."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Selkirk High School.
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Selkirk High School (at), 70 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Selkirk High School are Knowepark Primary School (0.3 miles) and Philiphaugh Community School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Scottish Borders 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 Selkirk High School in April 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
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
Selkirk High School is a high school in Selkirk, Scotland, which serves the town and its surrounding area including the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys and the villages of Midlem and Lilliesleaf. The school's motto is 'Trusty and Leal', taken from the common riding song 'Up wi' the Souters'.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Selkirk High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
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.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 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.
Commute and house prices
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Selkirk High School
Questions parents ask about Selkirk High School
When was Selkirk High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Selkirk High School in April 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Selkirk High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Selkirk 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 Scottish Borders. Scottish Borders publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Selkirk High School?
If you live in Selkirk High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Scottish Borders will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Scottish Borders - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Selkirk 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. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Selkirk High School?
Selkirk High School is at Hillside Terrace, Selkirk, Selkirk, TD7 4EW.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)