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Mallaig High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational104 pupilsHighland
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 getting extra support65%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher8.0Scotland 12.1
Pupils on roll104Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Mallaig High School is a council school in Highland for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 104 pupils. About 8 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Mallaig, Highland, PH41 4RG01687 462107mallaighigh.com/index.htmlAll 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 Mallaig High School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Highland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school (secondary Gaelic-medium, secondary non-denominational). You can see it on the map below; it covers about 773 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

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 Highland council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll104Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support65%Additional support needs
Pupils taught in Gaelic55%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 7 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is bigger than S4, so the roll is likely to grow. Pupils can leave after S4, so S5 and S6 are smaller.
17S1
19S2
19S3
14S4
22S5
13S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 10510520222023: 10010020232024: 10110120242025: 10110120252026: 1041042026
Since 2022: -1
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll104101101100105
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals7.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)65.4%63.4%55.4%43.0%41.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio8.07.87.27.57.48.37.5

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers13.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher8.0Scotland 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

No other schools of this phase within 8 km.

Questions parents ask

Is Mallaig High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Mallaig High School have?

104 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
Mallaig, Highland, PH41 4RG
Telephone
01687 462107
Website
www.mallaighigh.com/index.html
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
Highland
Setting
Remote rural areas
SEED code
5135834
Medium of education
English medium (but has Gaelic Medium stream)
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from