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St Stephen's High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilRoman Catholic537 pupilsPort GlasgowInverclyde
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 meals26%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support53%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher12.0Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas65%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll537Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St Stephen's High School is a council school in Port Glasgow for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 537 pupils. About 26 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Port Glasgow Community Campus, Kilmacolm Road, PORT GLASGOW, Port Glasgow, PA14 6PP01475 715300st-stephens.inverclyde.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 St Stephen's 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 Inverclyde council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll537Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals26%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support53%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English3%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas65%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas8%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 2 (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.
85S1
92S2
103S3
92S4
83S5
82S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 55855820222023: 54254220232024: 54254220242025: 54754720252026: 5375372026
Since 2022: -21
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll537547542542558
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals26.4%26.1%29.3%30.3%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)52.9%49.9%48.2%45.9%35.5%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.2%1.5%1.3%1.1%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.012.411.811.611.611.811.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers44.9full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.0Scotland 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
Port Glasgow High SchoolCouncil0 m545HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dumbarton AcademyCouncil4.2 miles729HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady & St Patrick's High SchoolCouncil4.8 miles968HMIE, no open dataCompare
Vale Of Leven AcademyCouncil4.9 miles967HMIE, no open dataCompare
Notre Dame High SchoolCouncil5.0 miles897HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Stephen's High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does St Stephen's High School have?

537 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
Port Glasgow Community Campus, Kilmacolm Road, PORT GLASGOW, Port Glasgow, PA14 6PP
Telephone
01475 715300
Website
st-stephens.inverclyde.sch.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Secondary school, ages 11-18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Local authority
Inverclyde
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8645639
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from