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Queensferry Community High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational1,282 pupilsEdinburghEdinburgh City
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 meals12%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support48%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher13.5Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas1%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,282Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Queensferry Community High School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,282 pupils. About 12 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

80 Station Road, South Queensferry, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH30 9JX0131 319 3200queensferry.edin.sch.ukAll 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 Queensferry Community High School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Edinburgh City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 50 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 Edinburgh City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll1,282Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals12%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support48%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English6%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas1%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas24%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
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.
243S1
247S2
239S3
193S4
205S5
155S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,0101,01020222023: 1,0251,02520232024: 1,1291,12920242025: 1,2051,20520252026: 1,2821,2822026
Since 2022: +272
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,2821,2051,1291,0251,010
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals12.0%10.0%9.9%10.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)47.6%47.6%39.9%39.9%35.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language5.9%3.2%2.8%2.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.513.513.813.113.113.513.5

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers94.9full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.5Scotland 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
Inverkeithing High SchoolCouncil3.3 miles1,607HMIE, no open dataCompare
Winchburgh AcademyCouncil4.0 miles243HMIE, no open dataCompare
Sinclair AcademyCouncil4.0 miles281HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craigmount High SchoolCouncil4.2 miles1,417HMIE, no open dataCompare
The Royal High SchoolCouncil4.3 miles1,578HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Queensferry Community High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Queensferry Community High School have?

1,282 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
80 Station Road, South Queensferry, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH30 9JX
Telephone
0131 319 3200
Website
www.queensferry.edin.sch.uk
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
Edinburgh City
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
5518334
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from