Kilgraston School
“SCOTTISH private schools have recorded their best ever results at Higher, new figures show.
Pupils from the independent sector recorded an overall pass rate of 93.5 per cent in their Higher exams in 2015 with 57 per cent of pupils securing A's.
That compares with a pass rate of 93 per cent for the previous three years with the number of A passes falling slightly in 2014 from 56 per cent to 55 per cent.
According to The Herald league tables…
Second in our table was Kilgraston, a girls school in Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, where 99 per cent of those who sat Highers passed.
The school building was erected in 1800 and was a private house and then a hospital before it was purchased in 1930 by the Society of the Sacred Heart and opened as a school with 40 boarders. The society became an independent Catholic charitable trust in 2000.
Dorothy MacGinty, the school's headmistress, said: "The single sex education we offer is of great benefit because the girls are free to take risks in their learning a without being ridiculed or laughed at if it is not successful. In co-educational schools they are much less likely to take risks.
"We also gear our teaching to the way that girls learn best with a focus on collaboration, taking time to research and the importance of presentation."