Deans Community High School, LIVINGSTON
Deans Community High School is a secondary school for pupils in Livingston.
- Attendance
- 85.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Deans Community High School in detail
School in Scotland
Deans Community High School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 975 pupils and 14 pupils per teacher.
23% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 49% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 14% speak English as an additional language.
31% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 16% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 85.4% in 2024/25, and 43.7% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 87% full.
94% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Deans Community High School in its own words
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, hockey, dance, chess, art, film, debating and book club.
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Deans Community High School are Inveralmond Community High School (1.2 miles), St Margaret's Academy (1.6 miles), The James Young High School (2.2 miles) and Bathgate Academy (2.5 miles).
Inveralmond Community High SchoolSt Margaret's AcademyThe James Young High SchoolBathgate Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Livingston North Rail Station, about 600 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Knightsridge Road (before), 130 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Deans Community High School are St John Ogilvie Primary School (0.2 miles), Carmondean Primary School (0.3 miles), Meldrum Primary School (0.5 miles) and Deans Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; West Lothian publishes both.
St John Ogilvie Primary SchoolCarmondean Primary SchoolMeldrum Primary SchoolDeans Primary School
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Deans Community High School in January 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Deans Community High School is a secondary level school, in Deans, Livingston, Scotland. The school opened in 1978, and is co-educational, with 1279 pupils.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Deans Community High School
Questions parents ask about Deans Community High School
When was Deans Community High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Deans Community High School in January 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Deans Community High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Deans Community High School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to West Lothian. West Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Deans Community High School?
If you live in Deans Community High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Deans Community High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Deans Community High School?
Deans Community High School is at Eastwood Park, Deans, LIVINGSTON, LIVINGSTON, EH54 8PS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)