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Drumchapel High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational793 pupilsGlasgowGlasgow City
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 meals62%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support72%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher9.8Scotland 12.1
Pupils on roll793Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Drumchapel High School is a council school in Glasgow for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 793 pupils. About 62 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

340 Kinfauns Drive, GLASGOW, Glasgow, G15 7SQ0141 582 0070drumchapelhigh.glasgow.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 Drumchapel High School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Glasgow City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 3.6 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 Glasgow City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll793Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals62%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support72%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English15%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 1 (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.
129S1
159S2
159S3
146S4
124S5
76S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 55455420222023: 61461420232024: 70670620242025: 75675620252026: 7937932026
Since 2022: +239
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll793756706614554
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals61.9%58.5%62.5%57.5%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)71.9%70.8%69.4%67.9%69.0%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language14.8%7.8%7.1%7.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio9.89.69.38.58.28.27.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers81.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher9.8Scotland 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 Peter the Apostle High SchoolCouncil1.1 miles1,450HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bearsden AcademyCouncil1.2 miles1,219HMIE, no open dataCompare
Clydebank High SchoolCouncil1.8 miles1,166HMIE, no open dataCompare
Knightswood Secondary SchoolCouncil2.0 miles1,210HMIE, no open dataCompare
Boclair AcademyCouncil2.4 miles1,032HMIE, no open dataCompare
Jordanhill SchoolGrant-aided2.4 miles1,051HMIE, no open dataCompare
Douglas AcademyCouncil2.5 miles1,044HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Thomas Aquinas Secondary SchoolCouncil2.6 miles1,137HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Drumchapel High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Drumchapel High School have?

793 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
340 Kinfauns Drive, GLASGOW, Glasgow, G15 7SQ
Telephone
0141 582 0070
Website
www.drumchapelhigh.glasgow.sch.uk
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
Glasgow City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8459932
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from