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Deans Community High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational975 pupilsLivingstonWest Lothian
School Chooser ScoreNot scoredScotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools, so we can't give its schools a score. Pupil numbers, free school meals, extra support, staffing and class sizes are below.
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support49%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher14.0Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas31%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll975Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Deans Community High School is a council school in Livingston for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 975 pupils. About 23 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Eastwood Park, Deans, LIVINGSTON, Livingston, EH54 8PS01506 282155deanscommunityhighschool.comAll details

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by HM Inspectorate of Education. Its reports grade a few areas on a scale from excellent to unsatisfactory, but the grades aren't published as a list we can use.

Results

Scotland publishes no school-level exam results as open data.

Leaver attainment and destinations for individual schools appear only on the Scottish Government's School Information Dashboard, which cannot be reproduced here. Open the dashboard and search for Deans Community High School.

Getting a place

There is no entrance test. Every address in Scotland has a catchment primary and secondary school. If you want a different school, you ask the council for a place there (a placing request).

You apply through West Lothian council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll975Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support49%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English14%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas31%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas16%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 9 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to S4 are about the same size. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
181S1
183S2
180S3
186S4
153S5
92S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 97797720222023: 98098020232024: 1,0061,00620242025: 99599520252026: 9759752026
Since 2022: -2
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll9759951,006980977
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals22.6%21.1%23.6%21.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)48.6%51.3%54.1%44.4%33.2%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language14.3%9.5%8.2%6.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.013.313.413.012.812.912.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers69.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.0Scotland 12.1

Nearby schools

The closest secondary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Inveralmond Community High SchoolCouncil1.2 miles958HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Margaret's AcademyCouncil1.6 miles1,126HMIE, no open dataCompare
The James Young High SchoolCouncil2.2 miles1,177HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bathgate AcademyCouncil2.5 miles1,216HMIE, no open dataCompare
Broxburn AcademyCouncil3.2 miles819HMIE, no open dataCompare
West Calder High SchoolCouncil3.7 miles1,245HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Kentigern's AcademyCouncil4.1 miles1,065HMIE, no open dataCompare
Winchburgh AcademyCouncil4.7 miles243HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Deans Community High School a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Deans Community High School yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Deans Community High School have?

975 pupils aged 11 to 18 were on the roll in September 2025.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
Eastwood Park, Deans, LIVINGSTON, Livingston, EH54 8PS
Telephone
01506 282155
Website
www.deanscommunityhighschool.com
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Secondary school, ages 11-18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
West Lothian
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
5502535
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from