Bannockburn High School, STIRLING
Bannockburn High School is a secondary school for pupils in Stirling.
- Attendance
- 88.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Bannockburn High School in detail
School in Scotland
Bannockburn High School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 535 pupils and 10.4 pupils per teacher.
29% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 62% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
28% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 11% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.3% in 2024/25, and 38.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 62% full.
91% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Bannockburn High School in its own words
In its own words: "We are committed to the education of the whole person - moral, intellectual, social and physical. We welcome all who wish to be part of our school and we aim to create in our school a community of learning in which our ASPIRE values permeate everything we do."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Bannockburn High School are Stirling High School (1.1 miles), St Modan's High School (1.7 miles), Wallace High School (3.1 miles) and Lornshill Academy (4.9 miles).
Stirling High SchoolSt Modan's High SchoolWallace High SchoolLornshill Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stirling Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bannockburn High School (at), 130 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Bannockburn High School are St Mary's RC Primary School (0.2 miles), Bannockburn Primary School (0.6 miles), Braehead Primary School (0.6 miles) and Borestone Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Stirling publishes both.
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolBannockburn Primary SchoolBraehead Primary SchoolBorestone Primary School
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Bannockburn High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Bannockburn High School
What is the catchment area for Bannockburn High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Bannockburn High School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Stirling. Stirling publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Bannockburn High School?
If you live in Bannockburn High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Bannockburn High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Bannockburn High School?
Bannockburn High School is at Bannockburn Road, Bannockburn, STIRLING, STIRLING, FK7 0HQ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)