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The 2025 Scottish Household Survey found that adult satisfaction with local schools rose to 72%, from 69% in 2024. Dissatisfaction also increased, from 9% to 11%, while the share who were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied fell from 22% to 17%.

Satisfaction was 80% among households with a school-aged child and 68% among households without one. The report says the 2020 and 2021 survey years are not comparable with other years because of pandemic-era changes in methodology, response rates and respondent profiles.