Thurso catchment area

[Southern-Gal]

I recently saw a wanted ad for a property saying it must be in the Thurso catchement area.
Is Thurso seen as the best between Wick and Thurso?
Where is the dividing line if there is one?

[Nick Noble]

I recently saw a wanted ad for a property saying it must be in the Thurso catchement area.
Is Thurso seen as the best between Wick and Thurso?
Where is the dividing line if there is one?

Beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder. I guess that if you asked that question of all the people in the county of Caithness you would finish up about 50/50.

Both town have strengths, they are quite different places in some ways and almost identical in others.

Thurso High school is associated with these primary schools:

• Castletown
• Crossroads
• Halkirk
• Miller Academy
• Mount Pleasant
• Pennyland
• Reay

and Wick with :

• Dunbeath Primary
• Lybster Primary
• Thrumster Primary
• Pulteneytown Primary
• South Primary
• Hillhead Primary
• North Primary
• Watten Primary
• Keiss Primary
• Bower Primary
• Canisbay Primary

For completeness it is also worth mentioning that there is also Farr High School at Bettyhill associated primaries are:

• Tongue Primary School
• Melvich Primary School
• Farr Primary School
• Altnaharra Primary School

[Southern-Gal]

Thanks for that Nick

Would living at Scotscalder mean that a child had to go to Halkirk or can they apply for other schools as well?

[pottheed]

Apply to other schools as well