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The Courier
30-04-2025
- General
- The Courier
School league table 2025: How Tayside, Fife & Stirling schools rank
A Fife school has made huge gains to reach the top two in The Courier's secondary schools league of 2025. Dunfermline High School was surpassed only by Dunblane High School in our ranking of 52 schools in Angus, Dundee, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Stirling. Schools are ranked on the percentage of leavers with five or more Higher qualifications (or equivalent). An impressive 60% of pupils to leave Dunfermline High in 2023/24 have five or more Highers (or equivalent) compared to 43% the year before. The best performing schools in each local authority area are: Dunblane retained the top spot in The Courier secondary schools league. It also recorded an increase in leavers with five or more Highers to 70%, compared to 62% the year before. Impressive rises were also seen at The Community School of Auchterarder, up 23 to 58%. Blairgowrie High School's percentage rose 10 to 37%. But there were significant decreases at Woodmill High School, Dunfermline, down 13 to 37%, and St John's RC Academy, Perth, down 16 to 32%. Bertha Park High School, also in Perth, is included in our table for the first time, as it had an S6 cohort for the first time in 2023/24. And 32% of its leavers gained five or more Highers. Five or more Highers is considered a benchmark of achievement as it is a common entry requirement for university. You can find out how your school performed below, in our table of Angus, Dundee, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Stirling local authority secondary schools. Each year the Scottish Government publishes attainment data for every school in Scotland. The figures our 2025 school league table is based on are the percentages of leavers to achieve five or more qualifications at SCQF level 6. As well as Highers, this can include qualifications such as a National Certificate or Modern Apprenticeship. Publication of school league tables is controversial, seen by many as an index of deprivation rather than a measure of individual schools' performance. An attainment gap exists between pupils who live in the most and least affluent areas. Indeed, in our top nine schools of 2025 fewer than one in 10 pupils live in the most deprived areas (designated quintile one in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation). At the three worst performing schools more than half of pupils are from the most deprived areas.
The Courier
27-04-2025
- General
- The Courier
Dunblane High School ‘one of top 20 secondaries in Scotland'
Dunblane High School has been included in a prestigious list of the top secondary schools in Scotland. The school is placed 13th in The Sunday Times Scotland 2025 Secondary School League Table, with 70% of pupils achieving five highers. Dunblane High School is the only secondary school in the Tayside, Fife and Stirling regions to be ranked inside the top 20. Grove Academy is listed as the top-performing school in Dundee, whilst Monifieth High School takes that honour in Angus. Bertha Park High School, in Perth, was among those that rose the most places in 2025 compared with 2024. Last year, the school was ranked 354 but has since risen 141 places to 213. However, Kinross High School is ranked as the top-performing school in the Perth and Kinross region. In Fife, Dunfermline High School is the highest ranked. Jordanhill School in Glasgow was named Scotland's top-performing high school for the eighth year running. It is the only grant-aided institution in Scotland and advocates for others to follow its unique funding deal, which gives it independence from council control. Baldragon Academy – 218 Braeview Academy – 323 Craigie High School – 335 Grove Academy – 77 Harris Academy – 180 Morgan Academy – 209 St John's RC High School – 218 St Paul's RC Academy – 283 Brechin Academy – 310 Brechin High School – 286 Carnoustie High School – 242 Forfar Academy – 312 Monifieth High School – 104 Montrose Academy – 306 Webster's High School – 277 Bertha Park High School – 213 Community School of Auchterarder – 340 Kinross High School – 78 Perth High School – 143 Blairgowrie High School – 161 Crieff High School – 177 Perth Academy – 139 Pitlochry High School – 344 Breadalbane Academy – 205 Perth Grammar – 199 St John's RC Academy – 212 Waid Academy – 85 Beath High School – 317 Bell Baxter High School – 214 Woodmill High School – 163 Dunfermline High School – 29 Queen Anne High School – 166 St Columba's RC High School – 185 Glenrothes High School – 193 Glenwood High School – 294 Auchmuty High School – 251 Inverkeithing High School – 228 Balwearie High School – 183 St Andrews RC High School – 301 Viewforth High School – 236 Kirkcaldy High School – 305 Levenmouth Academy – 328 Lochgelly High School – 264 Madras College – 129 Balfron High School – 30 Bannockburn High School – 96 Dunblane High School – 13 McLaren High School – 61 St Modan's High School – 254 Stirling High School – 124 Wallace High School – 108 A full searchable performance table for Scottish secondary schools is available on The Sunday Times website.
