Mallaig High School, Caol and Mallaig
Mallaig High School is a secondary school for pupils in Caol and Mallaig.
- Attendance
- 89.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Mallaig High School in detail
School in Scotland
Mallaig 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.
Mallaig High School offers Gaelic-medium education.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 104 pupils and 8 pupils per teacher.
65% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 89.4% in 2024/25, and 28.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 41% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2022/23 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.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Mallaig Rail Station, about 700 metres away (roughly a 9-minute walk).
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is High School (at), 120 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Mallaig High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
Mallaig High School is a secondary school in Mallaig, Lochaber, Scotland. The school building opened in 1989.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Mallaig High School
Getting There
Train Stations
Ferry Terminals
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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
Mallaig High School
Questions parents ask about Mallaig High School
What is the catchment area for Mallaig High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Mallaig 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Mallaig High School?
If you live in Mallaig High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Mallaig High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mallaig High School?
Mallaig High School is at Mallaig, Caol and Mallaig, PH41 4RG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)