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St John Ogilvie High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilRoman Catholic1,209 pupilsHamiltonSouth 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 meals21%P6 and above; Scotland 20%
Pupils getting extra support49%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas36%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,209Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St John Ogilvie High School is a council school in Hamilton for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,209 pupils. About 21 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Farm Road, Burnbank, HAMILTON, Hamilton, ML3 9LA01698 727600johnogilvie.s-lanark.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 St John Ogilvie High School.

Getting a place

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 South Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll1,209Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals21%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support49%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English10%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas36%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas8%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (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.
217S1
238S2
242S3
200S4
160S5
152S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,0411,04120222023: 1,0671,06720232024: 1,1221,12220242025: 1,1651,16520252026: 1,2091,2092026
Since 2022: +168
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,2091,1651,1221,0671,041
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals21.3%22.1%22.5%20.8%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)49.3%46.9%42.9%42.5%31.5%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language10.3%8.3%7.1%7.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.713.913.812.912.212.612.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers88.4full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 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
Holy Cross High SchoolCouncil0.9 miles1,481HMIE, no open dataCompare
Calderside AcademyCouncil1.1 miles1,214HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hamilton Grammar SchoolCouncil1.3 miles1,294HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cardinal Newman High SchoolCouncil3.0 miles813HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dalziel High SchoolCouncil3.1 miles1,003HMIE, no open dataCompare
Uddingston Grammar SchoolCouncil3.1 miles1,389HMIE, no open dataCompare
Calderglen High SchoolCouncil3.2 miles1,223HMIE, no open dataCompare
Braidhurst High SchoolCouncil3.4 miles609HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St John Ogilvie High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does St John Ogilvie High School have?

1,209 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
Farm Road, Burnbank, HAMILTON, Hamilton, ML3 9LA
Telephone
01698 727600
Website
www.johnogilvie.s-lanark.sch.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Secondary school, ages 11-18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Local authority
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8524939
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from