Education in Scotland is provided in state schools, private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. Mandatory education in Scotland begins for children in Primary 1 (P1) at primary school and ends in Fourth Year (S4) at secondary school. Overall accountability and control of state–education in Scotland rests with the Scottish Government, and is overseen by its executive agency, Education Scotland, with additional responsibility for nursery schools being the joint responsibility of both Education Scotland and the Care Inspectorate. Scotland's private schools are overseen by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools. Children in Scotland sit mandatory National Standardised Assessments in Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) at the end of primary school, and Third Year (S3) in secondary school, which assist in monitoring children's progress and providing diagnostic data information to support teachers' professional judgement.
Pupils and Early Years Minister Adam Ingram, Education and Lifelong Learning Secretary Fiona Hyslop and Schools and Skills Minister Maureen Watt with pupils at Avenue End Primary Campus in Glasgow.
Scottish school children during a classroom lesson
First Minister Alex Salmond visits a classroom at Turriff Academy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with pupils, launching the National Improvement Framework which also conducted a review of national standardised assessments in Scottish schools
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education and upper secondary education, i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools.
Main entrance of Camberwell High School, VIC, Australia
Students at First High School in Argos, Peloponnese, Greece
Pozsonyi Királyi Katolikus Gimnázium, a high school in Bratislava, Slovakia
The first taxpayer-funded public school in the United States was in Dedham, Massachusetts.
