Appendix 3 - Kinross High School
Perth and Kinross Council · 2 June 2025
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1 | Kinross High School, Perth and Kinross Council, 5350530 © Crown Copyright 29 April 2025 Dear Parent/Carer In February 2025, a team of inspectors from Education Scotland visited Kinross High School. During our visit, we talked to parents/carers and young people and worked closely with the headteacher and staff. The inspection team found the following strengths in the school’s work. • The headteacher and senior leaders have led a successful focus with staff on developing high quality learning, teaching and assessment. As a result, staff are highly motivated to provide positive and engaging learning environments for young people. • Senior leaders and staff have developed a range of robust systems to monitor young people’s progress in learning. Staff use this information well to plan young people’s support and ongoing learning experiences. • Staff work well with an extensive range of highly effective partners. These partnerships are enhancing significantly young people’s learning in classes, their wellbeing and achievements. • Most young people attain well. Almost all young people are supported effectively by staff and partners to progress to a positive destination on leaving school. The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the headteacher and a representative from Perth and Kinross Council. • Senior leaders and staff should continue to embed their approaches to providing consistently high-quality learning experiences for young people. • Staff should continue to identify and address gaps in young people’s attainment. All young people need to attain at the highest level, in line with their ability.
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2 | Kinross High School, Perth and Kinross Council, 5350530 © Crown Copyright We gathered evidence to enable us to evaluate the school’s work using quality indicators from How good is our school? (4th edition). Quality indicators help schools, local authorities and inspectors to judge what is working well and what needs to be improved. Following the inspection of each school, the Scottish Government gathers details of our evaluations to keep track of how well Scottish schools are doing. Here are Education Scotland’s evaluations for Kinross High School Quality indicators Evaluation Learning, teaching and assessment very good Raising attainment and achievement good Descriptions of the evaluations are available from: How good is our school? (4th edition), Appendix 3: The six-point scale. A more detailed document called Summarised Inspection Findings (SIF) will be available on the Education Scotland website at: Find an inspection report | Find an inspection report | Inspection and review | Education Scotland What happens next? We are confident that the school has the capacity to continue to improve and so we will make no more visits in connection with this inspection. Perth and Kinross Council will inform parents/carers about the school’s progress as part of its arrangements for reporting on the quality of its schools. Patricia Cameron HM Inspector