Brannock High School, MOTHERWELL

Brannock 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 604 pupils and 10.6 pupils per teacher.

25% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 50% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.

36% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 2% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 87.1% in 2024/25, and 46.1% 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 76% full.

92% of pupils who left in 2023/24 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Brannock High School are Taylor High School (0.5 miles), Braidhurst High School (1.7 miles), Dalziel High School (2.3 miles) and Bellshill Academy (2.4 miles).

The nearest railway station is Carfin Rail Station, about 440 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Cypress Road (before), 70 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Brannock High School are Keir Hardie Memorial Primary (0.3 miles), Our Lady & St Francis Primary School (0.3 miles), St Teresa's Primary School (0.3 miles) and Newarthill Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; North Lanarkshire publishes both.