You can read a lot into it, especially from the graph further up the thread. Scotland used to be well above the OECD average and on a par with England. England has dropped a bit, but is stilll well above the OECD average. Meanwhile, the other 3 countries of the UK have dropped sharply and are now on a par with the OECD average.

Education needs to be "revolved" (in that its devolved status needs to be reversed) and should become a UK Matter again. This experiment on the devolution of education has obviously failed, and we need to stop playing politics with kids education, and restore it, at least back to the standard it was at, and close to the standard in England.

But it needs to go further than that. England's standard has declined as well, and once education is a UK wide matter again, then the standards need to be driven up. Employers all over the UK are fed up with school leavers with poor literacy and numeracy skills (but a degree in something), who are ill prepared for the working environment, and who are unable to get through a full 60 second period without needing to check their social media.

Caithness and Thurso need not feel guilty about where their school lies in the league table. This is a Scotland wide issue. Its perhaps no accident that the southern belt are well up in the league (though there are plenty of southern belt schools well down it as well). But it just goes to show how southern centric some policies are in Scotland.