Speyside High School, MORAY
Speyside High School is a secondary school for pupils in Moray.
- Attendance
- 90.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Speyside High School in detail
School in Scotland
Speyside 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 357 pupils and 10 pupils per teacher.
11% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 61% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 90.2% in 2024/25, and 39.4% 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 64% full.
93% of pupils who left in 2015/16 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% 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 Speyside High School.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Gas Road (at), 120 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 Speyside High School in February 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 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.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Speyside High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025.
The typical figure for schools in Moray is 1 (the median across 53 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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Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
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Questions parents ask about Speyside High School
When was Speyside High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Speyside High School in February 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Speyside High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Speyside 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 Moray. Moray publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Speyside High School?
If you live in Speyside High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Moray will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Moray - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Speyside High School?
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025. The typical figure for schools in Moray is 1 (the median across 53 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Speyside High School?
Speyside High School is at Mary Avenue, Aberlour, MORAY, MORAY, AB38 9QU.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)