Inverness High School is a modern well resourced school in the centre of the city of Inverness. Although it is an Art Deco listed building the school boasts some of the most modern facilities in the North of Scotland. The school caters for young people from the age of about twelve to eighteen. The school has approximately 470 pupils and forty four teaching staff.

The schools catchment area is the part of Inverness which lies between the River Ness and the Caledonian Canal and the associated primary schools are: Central, Dalneigh and Merkinch Primaries, and a proportion of the pupils from St. Joseph’s R.C. School and Bishop Eden’s School. Since the two latter schools derive their pupils from all of Inverness, only a proportion of them come to the High School.

The School derived originally from the Free Church Institution which was founded after the Disruption of 1843. After incorporating Raining’s School, it moved to the premises now occupied by Crown Primary School. The Technical School in Church Street became a department of the High School, and in 1937 the entire school moved to its present site and was renamed the Technical High School. In 1959, the name reverted to Inverness High School. On the introduction of Comprehensive Education the school became an area comprehensive school.