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St Mungo’s Academy is a 6 year secondary school catering for the Roman Catholic children from its catchment area in the east end of Glasgow – Bridgeton, Calton, Dalmarnock, Parkhead, Dennistoun and Riddrie. Our roll is approximately 1120 and we have 5 partner primary schools.
Last year, our attendance figure was just below the Glasgow City average at 86%. Our exclusion figure was below the national and Glasgow city average.
Leadership of Change
In the last year, St. Mungo’s Academy young people have taken the lead in events both in school and in Glasgow City Council. The Equalities and Equity group have showcased their work around anti-racism and rights at the annual PARTIE event, sharing their work with other schools in the city. Our Rights Respecting Schools group continue to campaign for road safety and safe spaces for young people in our community. We were re-accredited as a Gold Rights Respecting School in September 2025, reflecting the hard work by young people and school staff in living Children’s Rights within our school community.
Many teachers within St. Mungo’s are working with other organisations such as Education Scotland, SQA and Glasgow City Council and share their experience and expertise to help plan new experiences for young people and provide training opportunities for other staff.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment
In St. Mungo’s, we have appointed a Principal Teacher of Learning & Teaching who has led our work around embedding starting and finishing routines within classrooms. This has helped young people get ready to learn successfully and ensured a consistent experience in classrooms around our school.
Teachers are also working with a training provider to reflect on their teaching within their classrooms and explore ways to enhance the experience for all young people. Teachers that have been involved in the first two cohorts have enjoyed their experience and the impact of this can be seen back in their classrooms.
Ensuring Wellbeing, Equality and Inclusion
We continue to promote our ‘Bringing out the Best’ positive relationships policy. Last year, young people were able to participate in trips and activities, including ice skating at Glasgow Green at Christmas, in recognition of their work, effort and positive relationships around school.
Through our school Inclusion Group referrals, we have supported many young people in gaining experiences with external partners supporting access to more opportunities, subjects and qualifications. Our new Learning Hub provides a larger space to support young people working individually or in small groups to attain important qualifications in literacy and numeracy alongside working with partners such as Tigers and First Steps. We also continue to work with other secondary schools in the city to offer a wider range of Advanced Higher courses for S6. There are now more courses available for our Senior Phase pupils such as Barista, Higher Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies and Level 6 Sports Leadership.
Our school has also received The Promise Award which recognises the work of the school community in supporting Care Experienced Learners. Our work looks to ensure that all young people are supported during their time in school to achieve their best and to access help and support when required.
Raising Attainment and Achievement
Our S4-6 continue to achieve well in their Qualifications Scotland (formally SQA) examinations with 67% of S4 young people achieving at least one qualification at level 5/National 5 and 20% achieving at least five qualifications at this level. In S5, 43% of young people achieved at least one Higher/Level 6 qualification with 10.4% achieving at least 5 qualifications at this level.
Most school leavers achieved at least Level 4 literacy and numeracy, while the majority achieved Level 5 literacy and numeracy. This has been a steady improvement over the last 4 years as we build on the literacy and numeracy interventions established in primary and we continue to ensure that all young people who require additional support have been provided exam supports to ensure they are able to reach their potential.
For our young people leaving school, almost all (97%) moved on to a positive, sustained destination. This figure reflects the high number of employability opportunities that are provided by our Developing the Young Workforce co-ordinator who has organised visits to a large number of employers around the city.
Impact of Pupil Equity Funding
This year, our Pupil Equity Fund has supported:
- Holiday Hunger programme for young people during the school holidays
- Continuing our work with our partners in FARE, Developing Young Workforce and MCR Pathways to provide support, groupwork, mentoring and employability opportunities for all young people
- Opportunities for groups to attend exhibitions, performances, events at universities and colleges and school trips linked to various subject areas
- Access for all families to the uniform bank and food bank
- A broader range of subjects that can be studied in St. Mungo’s Academy
- Access to our Campus Police Officer for young people and families as well as Police inputs on safety issues
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