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Kilsyth Academy

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilNon-denominational428 pupilsGlasgowNorth 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 meals15%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support41%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher9.8Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas14%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll428Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Kilsyth Academy is a council school in Glasgow for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 428 pupils. About 15 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Balmalloch, Kilsyth, GLASGOW, Glasgow, G65 9NF01236 757636northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5924All 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 Kilsyth Academy.

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 57 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 roll428Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals15%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support41%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English2%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas14%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas8%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 7 (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.
76S1
89S2
73S3
80S4
62S5
48S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 47647620222023: 47147120232024: 44144120242025: 44344320252026: 4284282026
Since 2022: -48
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll428443441471476
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals15.4%15.8%15.0%15.5%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)41.1%37.9%36.7%33.3%36.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language2.3%1.1%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio9.810.810.711.211.311.511.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers43.8full-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 Maurice's High SchoolCouncil2.9 miles956HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady's High School - CumbernauldCouncil3.5 miles876HMIE, no open dataCompare
Greenfaulds High SchoolCouncil3.8 miles1,312HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kirkintilloch High SchoolCouncil3.9 miles846HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cumbernauld AcademyCouncil4.3 miles1,090HMIE, no open dataCompare
East Dunbartonshire Central SchoolCouncil4.6 miles1HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Ninian's High SchoolCouncil4.8 miles888HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Kilsyth Academy a good school?

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

How many pupils does Kilsyth Academy have?

428 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
Balmalloch, Kilsyth, GLASGOW, Glasgow, G65 9NF
Telephone
01236 757636
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5924
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
Other urban areas
SEED code
8358532
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from