Port Glasgow High School, PORT GLASGOW

Port Glasgow 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 545 pupils and 11.9 pupils per teacher.

36% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 57% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.

63% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 13% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 87.9% in 2024/25, and 40.4% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 106% full.

93% of pupils who left in 2020/21 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Port Glasgow High School are St Stephen's High School (under 0.1 miles), Dumbarton Academy (4.2 miles), Our Lady & St Patrick's High School (4.8 miles) and Vale Of Leven Academy (4.9 miles).

The nearest railway station is Woodhall Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

18 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Port Glasgow High School (opposite), 120 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Port Glasgow High School are St Francis' Primary School (0.3 miles), Newark Primary School (0.7 miles) and St Michael's Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Inverclyde publishes both.