St Modan's High School, STIRLING
St Modan's High School is a secondary school for pupils in Stirling. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 89.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Modan's High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Modan'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 941 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.
12% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 13% speak English as an additional language.
29% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 17% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89.1% in 2024/25, and 38.2% 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 90% full.
92% 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.
St Modan's High School in its own words
In its own words: "St Modan’s is a Catholic Comprehensive High School, committed to nurturing all of our young people physically, socially, morally, spiritually and intellectually - a school where, through the promotion of Gospel values, all young people and staff thrive, and have opportunities to grow in wisdom and grace."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to St Modan's High School are Wallace High School (1.7 miles), Bannockburn High School (1.7 miles), Stirling High School (1.8 miles) and Lornshill Academy (3.7 miles).
Wallace High SchoolBannockburn High SchoolStirling High SchoolLornshill Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stirling Rail Station, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.
1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Modans High School (at), 180 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Modan's High School are Riverside Primary School (1.1 miles), Allan's Primary School (1.3 miles), Braehead Primary School (1.4 miles) and Fallin Primary School (1.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Stirling publishes both.
Riverside Primary SchoolAllan's Primary SchoolBraehead Primary SchoolFallin 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 Modan's High School in April 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
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Getting There
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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 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.
Commute and house prices
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about St Modan's High School
When was St Modan's High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Modan's High School in April 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 St Modan's High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Modan'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 Stirling. Stirling publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Modan's High School?
If you live in St Modan's High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Modan's 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Modan's High School?
St Modan's High School is at Royal Stuart Way, STIRLING, STIRLING, FK7 7WS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)