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Caldervale High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational1,086 pupilsAirdrieNorth Lanarkshire
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 meals23%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support47%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher12.5Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas39%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,086Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Caldervale High School is a council school in Airdrie for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,086 pupils. About 23 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Towers Road, Airdrie, Airdrie, ML6 8PG01236 794855northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5915All 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 Caldervale High School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Lanarkshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 61 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 North Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll1,086Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support47%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English3%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas39%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas3%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 8 (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.
214S1
221S2
199S3
190S4
170S5
92S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,0981,09820222023: 1,0991,09920232024: 1,0531,05320242025: 1,1011,10120252026: 1,0861,0862026
Since 2022: -12
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,0861,1011,0531,0991,098
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals22.9%21.1%22.7%20.7%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)46.9%41.3%19.4%19.4%20.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.1%1.3%1.3%1.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.511.911.912.713.112.912.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers86.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.5Scotland 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
St Margaret's High SchoolCouncil1.3 miles1,119HMIE, no open dataCompare
Airdrie AcademyCouncil1.8 miles1,018HMIE, no open dataCompare
Coatbridge High SchoolCouncil3.0 miles1,080HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Andrew's High SchoolCouncil3.8 miles1,313HMIE, no open dataCompare
Brannock High SchoolCouncil3.9 miles604HMIE, no open dataCompare
Taylor High SchoolCouncil4.0 miles1,004HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Ambrose High SchoolCouncil4.3 miles1,534HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bellshill AcademyCouncil4.4 miles701HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Caldervale High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Caldervale High School have?

1,086 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
Towers Road, Airdrie, Airdrie, ML6 8PG
Telephone
01236 794855
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5915
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
North Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8505632
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from