Almost 30,000 children and young people attend mainstream and specialist independent schools in Scotland. Our schools are committed to innovation and collaboration and playing a major role in promoting excellence in education.
91探花 is a powerful advocacy organisation representing the views of our member schools and making a positive contribution to the development of policy and best practice across the Scottish education system.
The Scottish independent school sector is recognised for its world leading education offer and high quality pastoral care. Our sector is diverse. It includes small specialist schools supporting pupils with complex needs, city day schools and rural boarding schools. Pupils from more than 80 different countries attend our schools.
The Scottish independent school sector is diverse comprising day, boarding, prep and specialist schools.
The sector generates more than half a billion pounds each year for the Scottish economy, and it supports almost 12,000 jobs.
However, the sector is not well understood. This film aims to explain the benefits of having a strong independent school sector:
