Welcome to Dunblane High School

Dunblane High School has a strong tradition of providing a high quality of education for all its pupils, setting the highest expectations, recognising and rewarding pupil success. We aim to create a happy, caring and ordered community in which individuals can achieve their potential both academically and socially. We are committed to the development of individual talent, self discipline and self responsibility and we believe in looking to the future. We invite you to explore our website to get an insight into life at Dunblane High School.

"Education is about values first and everything else second.  School education is about teachers working together with young people and their families.  DHS is lucky to have an extraordinary level of support from parents and a staff of extraordinary dedication and commitment.  However the most impressive thing about our school is our young people some of whom you will read about on this website.  In session 2010-11 these three components of our school community came together to ensure a new direction for the school.  This new direction was inspired by the school’s tradition.  Since 1974 when it became a High School, Dunblane has, as its motto indicates, striven to “look beyond the mountains”. It has always stood for and indeed promoted, individual aspiration and ambition – exhorting young people to look beyond the easily obtainable;  it has stood for and promoted community and now global awareness and responsibility.  In this sense a key purpose of our school has always been moral.  We aim to continue to promote that key purpose.  With the introduction in 2010-11 of the new Curriculum for Excellence, we now have in Scotland a national rationale which says that schools should seek to influence not only what young people know by the time they leave and what they are able to do, but also the kind of people they should become. Our young people should become, not only “successful learners” and “confident individuals,” but “effective contributors” and “responsible citizens”.  These are ideas central to the Scottish educational tradition and to the tradition of Dunblane High School where we aim to set the highest standards not only in our academic work but all aspects of our school’s life."