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Golspie High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational257 pupilsHighland
School Chooser ScoreNot scoredScotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools, so we can't give its schools a score. Pupil numbers, free school meals, extra support, staffing and class sizes are below.
Pupils registered for free school meals11%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support58%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher10.0Scotland 12.1
Pupils on roll257Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Golspie High School is a council school in Golspie for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 257 pupils. About 10 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Main Street, GOLSPIE, Golspie, KW10 6RF01408 633451golspiehigh.schools.uk.comAll details

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by HM Inspectorate of Education. Its reports grade a few areas on a scale from excellent to unsatisfactory, but the grades aren't published as a list we can use.

Results

Scotland publishes no school-level exam results as open data.

Leaver attainment and destinations for individual schools appear only on the Scottish Government's School Information Dashboard, which cannot be reproduced here. Open the dashboard and search for Golspie High School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Highland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 2,226 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

There is no entrance test. Every address in Scotland has a catchment primary and secondary school. If you want a different school, you ask the council for a place there (a placing request).

You apply through Highland council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll257Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals11%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support58%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to S4 are about the same size. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
45S1
50S2
45S3
48S4
41S5
28S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 24624620222023: 26326320232024: 26426420242025: 26326320252026: 2572572026
Since 2022: +11
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll257263264263246
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals10.5%11.8%14.0%14.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)57.6%62.7%54.9%55.1%54.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.3%1.9%3.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio10.09.710.19.89.79.49.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers25.7full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher10.0Scotland 12.1

Nearby schools

The closest secondary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored

No other schools of this phase within 8 km.

Questions parents ask

Is Golspie High School a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Golspie High School yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Golspie High School have?

257 pupils aged 11 to 18 were on the roll in September 2025.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
Main Street, GOLSPIE, Golspie, KW10 6RF
Telephone
01408 633451
Website
golspiehigh.schools.uk.com
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Secondary school, ages 11-18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
Highland
Setting
Remote rural areas
SEED code
5109531
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from