St Andrew's R C High School, Kirkcaldy
St Andrew's R C High School is a secondary school for pupils in Kirkcaldy. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 86.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Andrew's R C High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Andrew's R C 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 977 pupils and 12.4 pupils per teacher.
21% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 69% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 25% speak English as an additional language.
32% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 86.3% in 2024/25, and 44% 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 86% full.
94% 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 St Andrew's R C High School are Kirkcaldy High School (0.7 miles), Viewforth High School (0.8 miles), Balwearie High School (2.4 miles) and Auchmuty High School (4.4 miles).
Kirkcaldy High SchoolViewforth High SchoolBalwearie High SchoolAuchmuty High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Kirkcaldy Rail Station, about 1.4 miles away in a straight line.
27 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Andrews High School (stance 1), 90 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Andrew's R C High School are St Marie's R C Primary School (0.2 miles), Pathhead Primary School (0.4 miles), Sinclairtown Primary School (0.7 miles) and Kirkcaldy North Primary School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Fife publishes both.
St Marie's R C Primary SchoolPathhead Primary SchoolSinclairtown Primary SchoolKirkcaldy North 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Andrew's R C High School in April 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 13
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 4 serious and 8 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 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
St Andrew's R C High School
Questions parents ask about St Andrew's R C High School
When was St Andrew's R C High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Andrew's R C High School in April 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Andrew's R C High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Andrew's R C 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 St Andrew's R C High School?
If you live in St Andrew's R C 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 St Andrew's R C High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 4 serious and 8 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Andrew's R C High School?
St Andrew's R C High School is at Overton Road, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcaldy, KY1 3JL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)