Aviemore Railway Station with Island Platform, Footbridge and Fencing · Photo: Tom Parnell · CC BY-SA 4.0Schools in and around Aviemore
No secondary school is inside Aviemore; the School Grade uses the 0 secondaries its children go to, on school leavers’ results.
Figures for the area are leaver-weighted across the secondaries the grade uses; Scotland’s are all leavers in 2024-25.
Where Aviemore’s school is
Each school at its address, coloured by denomination (Gaelic-medium schools teal) and sized by pupils. Squares are secondaries, triangles special schools. The dashed shape is Aviemore’s locality boundary.
The school in Aviemore
Aviemore has 1 state school inside its locality boundary, from the Scottish Government’s school list. A secondary’s letter compares its leavers’ results with every other graded secondary in Scotland. Primary and special schools have no letter. Each school’s page has its pupils, results and nearby schools.
Where school leavers go next
Initial destinations, around three months after leaving school.
Highland council: where leavers go
All 2,589 secondary leavers across the council, 2024/25; these are council figures, not figures for Aviemore or its individual schools.
Scottish Government: School Information Dashboard (school totals); SSAILD 2026, Table L2.1 (council categories).
Additional support needs in Aviemore’s schools
53% of pupils in Aviemore’s mainstream schools have an additional support need recorded, against 42% across Scotland. Under Scotland’s Additional Support for Learning Act a need can be anything that gets in the way of learning, from dyslexia or autism to a family bereavement or caring for a parent, so a high share can mean a school that looks hard for needs as much as a school with more of them.
12% of pupils are learning English as an additional language (Scotland 10%).
The black tick is Scotland’s share for the phase (primary 37%, secondary 49%).
Scottish Government, summary statistics for schools in Scotland 2025: pupils with an additional support need, English as an additional language.
How children get a place in Aviemore
Starting school
Children born between March and the following February start P1 together in August, aged four and a half to five and a half; a child who is still four in August can defer a year. Every home has a catchment primary, and usually a catchment Catholic primary too. Families register in January; a child in the catchment area gets a place there, and a family can make a placing request for any other school.
Moving up to S1
Pupils move from P7 to S1 at 11 or 12, normally to the secondary their primary feeds. There are no entrance tests at council schools; a placing request for another secondary is granted where it has room. Pupils can leave after S4, at 16, or stay for S5 and S6 to sit Highers.
Highland council admissions, catchment areas and placing requests are on the council’s website. Grant-aided and independent schools set their own admissions.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Leavers, not one year group. Scotland’s school results count each pupil once, when they leave, whether after S4, S5 or S6, with everything they gained at school. England and Northern Ireland count one year group sitting GCSEs, so the figures don’t compare across the border, and the School Grade ranks a Scottish town only against Scotland’s towns.
- National 5 and SCQF levels. National 5 is SCQF level 5, roughly a GCSE at grade 4 or above; Highers are level 6 and Advanced Highers level 7. “5 or more at level 5 or better” counts any five awards at National 5, Higher or above, in any subjects.
- Three years, weighted by leavers. Each school’s figure is the average of 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25, each year weighted by its leavers, so one unusual year moves it less. A secondary needs 20 leavers a year on average to be graded.
- After school. The school figure is the share in a positive initial destination in 2024/25, weighted by leavers at the area schools with published figures. The detailed destination categories are for the whole council, not the town. Other positive destinations include voluntary work and personal skills development. Suppressed categories are left out; they are not zero. Initial destinations are measured around three months after leaving.
Questions about schools in Aviemore
Are schools in Aviemore good?
There aren’t enough published results near Aviemore to grade its schools.
How many schools are in Aviemore?
Aviemore has 1 primary school, with 199 pupils in September 2025. 0 graded secondaries are in the grade.
How do I get a school place in Aviemore?
Through Highland council. Every home has a catchment school, and a child in the catchment area gets a place there; families can make a placing request for another school, granted where it has room.
Sources: Scottish Government school contact list (31 July 2026) and school summary statistics (pupil census, September 2025); School Information Dashboard leavers’ attainment by school, 2022-23 to 2024-25 (data.gov.scot) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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