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Vale Of Leven Academy

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational967 pupilsAlexandriaWest Dunbartonshire
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 meals30%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support54%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher11.5Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas51%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll967Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Vale Of Leven Academy is a council school in Alexandria for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 967 pupils. About 30 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools.

Main Street, ALEXANDRIA, Alexandria, G83 0BH01389 777000sites.google.com/ourcloud.buzz/valeoflevenacademyAll 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 Vale Of Leven Academy.

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 Dunbartonshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll967Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals30%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support54%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English1%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas51%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas9%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 3 (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.
184S1
209S2
195S3
149S4
132S5
98S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,0501,05020222023: 98098020232024: 98298220242025: 99599520252026: 9679672026
Since 2022: -83
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll9679959829801,050
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals29.7%29.8%31.4%30.2%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)54.2%57.6%54.9%55.4%57.6%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language1.1%1.3%1.6%0.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio11.511.911.711.311.611.410.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers84.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher11.5Scotland 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
Our Lady & St Patrick's High SchoolCouncil1.9 miles968HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dumbarton AcademyCouncil2.5 miles729HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hermitage AcademyCouncil4.7 miles1,339HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Stephen's High SchoolCouncil4.9 miles537HMIE, no open dataCompare
Port Glasgow High SchoolCouncil4.9 miles545HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Vale Of Leven Academy a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Vale Of Leven Academy yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Vale Of Leven Academy have?

967 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
Main Street, ALEXANDRIA, Alexandria, G83 0BH
Telephone
01389 777000
Website
sites.google.com/ourcloud.buzz/valeoflevenacademy
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 Dunbartonshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8304831
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from