St Benedict's High School, LINWOOD
St Benedict's High School is a secondary school for pupils in Linwood. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 86.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Benedict's High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Benedict's 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 847 pupils and 12.5 pupils per teacher.
22% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 49% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.
33% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 11% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 86.8% in 2024/25, and 40.7% 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 100% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2024/25 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to St Benedict's High School are Linwood High School (0.3 miles), Johnstone High School (1.6 miles), Gryffe High School (2.1 miles) and Gleniffer High School (2.5 miles).
Linwood High SchoolJohnstone High SchoolGryffe High SchoolGleniffer High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Johnstone Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Benedicts High School (opposite), 150 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Benedict's High School are East Fulton Primary School (0.3 miles), Our Lady Of Peace Primary School (0.4 miles), Woodlands Primary School (0.4 miles) and Thorn Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Renfrewshire publishes both.
East Fulton Primary SchoolOur Lady Of Peace Primary SchoolWoodlands Primary SchoolThorn 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 St Benedict's High School in April 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
1 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 Renfrewshire is 4 (the median across 69 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 St Benedict's High School
When was St Benedict's High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Benedict's High School in April 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Benedict's High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Benedict's 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 Renfrewshire. Renfrewshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Benedict's High School?
If you live in St Benedict's High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Renfrewshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Renfrewshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Benedict's High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 1 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 Renfrewshire is 4 (the median across 69 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Benedict's High School?
St Benedict's High School is at Bridge of Weir Road, LINWOOD, LINWOOD, PA5 8EX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)