Contractors are putting the finishing touches on the new Inverness Royal Academy as the £34million project nears completion.
Work started on the project in August 2014 and the new facility is due to open its doors to up to 1,420 pupils at the start of the school year next month.
Building firm Morrisons are due to hand over the keys to Highland Council on Monday next week, August 1, while staff can access school from a week today.
It is being expanded from the current 1,153-pupil building to accommodate the growth in the roll due to major house developments in the area, and the projected increase in the uptake of Gaelic medium education.
The new school will consist of 171,824sq ft of floor space, including 39 practical, 40 non-practical and five tutorial classrooms, and an additional six rooms for Gaelic teaching.
The old building at the site on Culduthel Road will be demolished to make way for new sports facilities for the school and community.
Hub North Scotland is leading the project after being appointed by Highland Council as development partner.
Inverness Royal Academy was founded in 1792, when it replaced the town Grammar School.
In 1793 a Royal Charter was obtained from King George III and, as Inverness Royal Academy, the school operated on Academy Street until 1895, when it moved to Midmills Road in the Crown area.
This building housed the academy until August 1977 when part of the school moved to the new site in Culduthel, and two years later the school completed its move to the current site.
The Scottish Government has contributed £18million towards the construction of the new school.
There will be two games halls, a fitness suite, dance studio, gymnasium and two synthetic turf pitches.
The Additional Support Needs accommodation will more than double in order to improve the educational experience pupils.
Highland Council declined to comment on the progress of the project yesterday.