Queensferry Community High School, EDINBURGH
Queensferry Community High School is a secondary school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 92.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Queensferry Community High School in detail
School in Scotland
Queensferry 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 1282 pupils and 13.5 pupils per teacher.
12% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 24% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.5% in 2024/25, and 23.8% 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 good (A); the school was 107% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2020/21 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 97% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Queensferry Community High School are Inverkeithing High School (3.3 miles), Winchburgh Academy (4 miles), Sinclair Academy (4 miles) and Craigmount High School (4.2 miles).
Inverkeithing High SchoolWinchburgh AcademySinclair AcademyCraigmount High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dalmeny Rail Station, about 370 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ashburnham Road (after), 20 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Queensferry Community High School are St Margaret's RC Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Queensferry Primary School (0.3 miles), Dalmeny Primary School (0.7 miles) and Echline Primary School (0.9 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Edinburgh City publishes both.
St Margaret's RC Primary SchoolQueensferry Primary SchoolDalmeny Primary SchoolEchline 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 Queensferry Community High School in December 2023.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
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 Queensferry Community 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
- 0
- 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, 0 serious and 1 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 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
Queensferry Community High School
Questions parents ask about Queensferry Community High School
When was Queensferry Community High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Queensferry Community High School in December 2023. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Queensferry Community High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Queensferry 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 Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Queensferry Community High School?
If you live in Queensferry Community High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Edinburgh City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Edinburgh City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Queensferry Community 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, 0 serious and 1 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Queensferry Community High School?
Queensferry Community High School is at 80 Station Road, South Queensferry, EDINBURGH, EDINBURGH, EH30 9JX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)