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Kinlochleven High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational104 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 getting extra support49%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher5.4Scotland 12.1
Pupils on roll104Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Kinlochleven High School is a council school in Kinlochleven for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 104 pupils. About 8 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Riverside Road, Kinlochleven, ARGYLL, Kinlochleven, PH50 4QG01855 832042kinlochlevenhs.schoolwebsite.scot/homeAll 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 Kinlochleven 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 683 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 roll104Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support49%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English7%First language is not English
Pupils taught in Gaelic34%
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
The youngest year is smaller than S4, so the roll is likely to fall. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
8S1
17S2
19S3
23S4
22S5
15S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 13413420222023: 13513520232024: 13513520242025: 12212220252026: 1041042026
Since 2022: -30
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll104122135135134
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals9.0%14.1%8.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)49.0%56.6%56.3%59.3%55.2%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.7%6.6%5.2%3.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio5.47.37.97.47.18.68.5

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers19.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher5.4Scotland 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 Kinlochleven High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Kinlochleven High School have?

104 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
Riverside Road, Kinlochleven, ARGYLL, Kinlochleven, PH50 4QG
Telephone
01855 832042
Website
kinlochlevenhs.schoolwebsite.scot/home
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
5135532
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from