St Stephen's High School, PORT GLASGOW
St Stephen's High School is a secondary school for pupils in Port Glasgow. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 88.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Stephen's High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Stephen'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 537 pupils and 12 pupils per teacher.
26% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 53% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
65% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.9% in 2024/25, and 36.2% 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 99% full.
91% 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to St Stephen's High School are Port Glasgow High School (under 0.1 miles), Dumbarton Academy (4.2 miles), Our Lady & St Patrick's High School (4.8 miles) and Vale Of Leven Academy (4.9 miles).
Port Glasgow High SchoolDumbarton AcademyOur Lady & St Patrick's High SchoolVale Of Leven Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Woodhall Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.
18 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Port Glasgow High School (opposite), 120 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Stephen's High School are St Francis' Primary School (0.3 miles), Newark Primary School (0.7 miles) and St Michael's Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Inverclyde publishes both.
St Francis' Primary SchoolNewark Primary SchoolSt Michael's 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 Stephen's High School in May 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 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
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.
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 Inverclyde is 4 (the median across 30 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
St Stephen's High School
Questions parents ask about St Stephen's High School
When was St Stephen's High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Stephen's High School in May 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Stephen's High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Stephen'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 Inverclyde. Inverclyde publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Stephen's High School?
If you live in St Stephen's High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Inverclyde will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Inverclyde - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Stephen's High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 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 Inverclyde is 4 (the median across 30 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Stephen's High School?
St Stephen's High School is at Port Glasgow Community Campus, Kilmacolm Road, PORT GLASGOW, PORT GLASGOW, PA14 6PP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)