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How our schools are performing

How you can access school statistics and find out about the steps we’re taking to improve education.

Last updated

02 Nov 2023

Reports and plans by schools and nurseries

Each session, every school and nursery in the Stirling Council area produces a:

  • standards and quality report, that explains the school’s performance and outlines its priorities for the coming year
  • school improvement plan, that sets out the actions the school will take to improve and address issues identified in its standards and quality report

If you want to read a specific report or plan, you can ask the school or nursery for this.

Schools in Stirling

Nurseries in Stirling

School information dashboard

Education Scotland publishes detailed data about Scottish schools, including:

  • pupil numbers
  • attendance levels
  • average class sizes
  • pupil-to-teacher ratios

You can access all of this data by visiting the school information dashboard section of its Parentzone website. The dashboard has three separate sections, which cover:

  • primary school data
  • secondary school data
  • special school data

School information dashboard on the Parentzone site

Stirling Council reports and plans

Our Schools, Learning and Education team produces official documents about:

  • progress and achievements within our schools
  • the impact of specific funding or initiatives
  • actions we’ll take to make further improvements

Standards and quality report

This report outlines:

  • how we’ve served our children and young people
  • improvements we’ve made in infrastructure and support
  • how we’ve promoted equal opportunities
  • how we’ve worked with partners to do this

Improvement plan

Our plan explains how we’ll:

  • drive improvements in a range of areas, including digital connectivity, parental engagement and wellbeing
  • implement the Scottish Government’s National Improvement Framework priorities in Stirling

  1. SLE improvement plan

    Multiple documents available

Pupil Equity Funding report

Pupil Equity Funding is Scottish Government funding that’s provided directly to schools. It’s designed to support children in P1 to S3 who have registered for free school meals.

Our Pupil Equity Funding report covers:

  • the impact that this funding has had in our schools
  • attainment trends
  • the expenditure of each school

  1. Pupil Equity Funding report, 2021–21

    PDF

    3.5 MB

School roll data

We publish roll information for every school in the Stirling Council area. The latest figures were published in September 2021, and cover the 2021-22 school year.

Primary school roll data, 2021–22

Primary School

P1 Roll

P2 Roll

P3 Roll

P4 Roll

P5 Roll

P6 Roll

P7 Roll

Total
Aberfoyle 4 11 11 7 12 11 10 66
Allan's 22 19 19 18 21 24 15 138
Balfron 17 22 25 30 40 36 32 202
Bannockburn 43 51 31 47 54 44 45 315
Borestone 39 37 43 54 40 39 38 290
Braehead 39 47 42 52 47 55 41 323
Bridge of Allan 49 44 50 59 39 49 58 348
Buchlyvie 4 5 4 3 2 7 4 29
Callander 40 32 37 35 35 35 45 259
Cambusbarron 26 32 30 24 31 27 36 206
Cornton 26 30 26 14 39 28 30 193
Cowie 25 23 23 22 15 18 18 144
Crianlarich 2 3 5 6 1 4 0 21
Deanston 1 5 1 7 9 2 7 32
Doune 30 23 31 29 22 30 25 190
Drymen 15 15 12 23 17 15 19 116
Dunblane 49 43 59 44 64 70 65 394
East Plean 24 28 21 23 25 23 18 162
Fallin 32 31 26 37 28 19 48 221
Fintry 7 8 10 6 5 5 9 50
Gargunnock 6 11 9 3 13 6 13 61
Gartmore 6 7 1 9 2 5 5 35
Killearn 29 24 27 25 29 36 26 196
Killin 9 5 11 5 14 8 12 64
Kincardine in Menteith 6 9 6 8 5 5 1 40
Kippen 16 12 21 18 15 13 12 107
Newton 51 51 46 56 63 63 55 385
Our Lady's RC 9 11 19 17 12 25 13 106
Port of Menteith 1 1 1 0 4 5 3 15
Raploch 27 33 30 26 32 26 18 192
Riverside 71 67 54 76 64 69 67 468
St. Margaret's RC 25 15 27 24 21 18 16 146
St. Mary's Episcopal 8 5 8 10 15 4 9 59
St. Mary's RC 38 36 43 34 38 42 43 274
St. Ninians 59 51 56 48 62 63 59 398
Strathblane 20 17 23 19 22 23 25 149
Strathyre 2 7 5 5 4 8 10 41
Thornhill 9 8 5 11 8 6 7 54

Total

886

879

898

934

969

966

957

6,489

High school roll data, 2021–22

High school

S1 Roll

S2 Roll

S3 Roll

S4 Roll

S5 Roll

S6 Roll

Total
Balfron 161 142 150 155 149 112 869
Bannockburn 99 70 106 119 86 68 548
Dunblane 176 153 165 162 183 152 991
McLaren 103 100 126 104 116 92 641
St. Modan's 186 187 179 170 168 132 1,022
Stirling 182 184 181 206 170 124 1,047
Wallace 224 222 211 184 161 151 1,153

Total

1,131

1,058

1,118

1,100

1,033

831

6,271

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