Portland High School, Coatbridge
Portland High School is a special school for pupils in Coatbridge.
- Attendance
- 50.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Portland High School in detail
School in Scotland
Portland 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 12 pupils and 2.7 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
58% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 50.3% in 2024/25, and 78.6% 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 poor (C).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Portland High School are Drumpark Primary School (0.2 miles), Pentland School (1.2 miles), Buchanan High (1.2 miles) and Mavisbank School (1.4 miles).
Drumpark Primary SchoolPentland SchoolBuchanan HighMavisbank School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Coatbridge Sunnyside Rail Station, about 620 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Portland High School (opposite), 20 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Portland High School in March 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 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.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Portland High School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 16
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 23
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 16 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 12 slight.
23 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 21 in a vehicle or otherwise.
5 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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 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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Questions parents ask about Portland High School
When was Portland High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Portland High School in March 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Portland High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Portland 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 North Lanarkshire. North Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Portland High School?
If you live in Portland High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and North Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to North Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Portland High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 16 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 12 slight. 23 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 21 in a vehicle or otherwise. 5 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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Portland High School?
Portland High School is at 31-33 Kildonan Street, Coatbridge, Coatbridge, ML5 3LG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)