Preston Lodge High School, EAST LOTHIAN
Preston Lodge High School is a secondary school for pupils in East Lothian.
- Attendance
- 90.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Preston Lodge High School in detail
School in Scotland
Preston Lodge 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 1133 pupils and 14.1 pupils per teacher.
11% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 56% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 31% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.2% in 2024/25, and 36.1% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 103% full.
97% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 96% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Preston Lodge High School in its own words
In its own words: "Our staff and students are our Aims and Values, and together we do everything we can to support our students to learn, achieve, be respectful, help to build our community and, most of all, be happy. We review our Aims and Values regularly, and they are a constant in all of our work."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Preston Lodge High School are Ross High School (1.3 miles), Rosehill High School (1.8 miles), Musselburgh Grammar School (3.4 miles) and Dalkeith High School (4.9 miles).
Ross High SchoolRosehill High SchoolMusselburgh Grammar SchoolDalkeith High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Prestonpans Rail Station, about 660 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Preston Lodge High School (at), 140 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Preston Lodge High School are Preston Tower Primary School (0.3 miles), St Gabriel's RC Primary School (0.5 miles), Cockenzie Primary School (0.9 miles) and Blindwells Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; East Lothian publishes both.
Preston Tower Primary SchoolSt Gabriel's RC Primary SchoolCockenzie Primary SchoolBlindwells 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 Preston Lodge High School in May 2026.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
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Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 9
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 8 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
3 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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 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
Questions parents ask about Preston Lodge High School
When was Preston Lodge High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Preston Lodge High School in May 2026.
What is the catchment area for Preston Lodge High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Preston Lodge 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 East Lothian. East Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Preston Lodge High School?
If you live in Preston Lodge High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Preston Lodge High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 8 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 3 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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Preston Lodge High School?
Preston Lodge High School is at Park View, Prestonpans, EAST LOTHIAN, EAST LOTHIAN, EH32 9QJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)