Braidhurst High School, Motherwell

Braidhurst 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 609 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.

23% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.

54% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 7% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 86% in 2024/25, and 46.7% 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 83% full.

91% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 93% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Braidhurst High School are Dalziel High School (1 mile), Taylor High School (1.2 miles), Bellshill Academy (1.5 miles) and Brannock High School (1.7 miles).

The nearest railway station is Motherwell Rail Station, about 1100 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Braidhurst High School (opposite), 100 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Braidhurst High School are Muir Street Primary School (0.3 miles), Cathedral Primary School (0.5 miles), St Bernadette's Primary (0.7 miles) and Ladywell Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; North Lanarkshire publishes both.