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Trinity High School

Secondary · ages 11-18MixedCouncilRoman Catholic1,270 pupilsRutherglenSouth 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 support39%Scotland 50%
Pupils per teacher14.1Scotland 12.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas29%Scotland 21%
Pupils on roll1,270Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Trinity High School is a council school in Rutherglen for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. It has 1,270 pupils. About 20 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

Glenside Drive, Rutherglen, Rutherglen, G73 3LW0141 646 3650trinity.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 Trinity 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 roll1,270Census 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 support39%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English6%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas29%Scotland 21%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas13%Scotland 17%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 3 (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.
220S1
206S2
228S3
234S4
221S5
161S6
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 1,1821,18220222023: 1,1861,18620232024: 1,2311,23120242025: 1,2401,24020252026: 1,2701,2702026
Since 2022: +88
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1,2701,2401,2311,1861,182
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals20.5%15.2%15.7%15.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)39.3%38.5%39.9%37.4%35.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.1%6.5%5.8%5.6%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.114.214.013.914.113.013.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers90.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.1Scotland 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
Stonelaw High SchoolCouncil630 m1,322HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cathkin High SchoolCouncil0.6 miles1,029HMIE, no open dataCompare
Castlemilk High SchoolCouncil2.2 miles449HMIE, no open dataCompare
Eastbank AcademyCouncil2.2 miles1,089HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Margaret Mary's Secondary SchoolCouncil2.4 miles440HMIE, no open dataCompare
King's Park Secondary SchoolCouncil2.5 miles914HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mungo's AcademyCouncil2.6 miles1,089HMIE, no open dataCompare
Holyrood Secondary SchoolCouncil2.7 miles2,298HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Trinity High School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Trinity High School have?

1,270 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
Glenside Drive, Rutherglen, Rutherglen, G73 3LW
Telephone
0141 646 3650
Website
www.trinity.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
8458030
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from