Carrongrange High School, Grangemouth
Carrongrange High School is a special school for pupils in Grangemouth.
- Attendance
- 91.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Carrongrange High School in detail
School in Scotland
Carrongrange 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 152 pupils and 3.2 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
18% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 20% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91.1% in 2024/25, and 29.8% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Carrongrange High School are Inclusion and Wellbeing Service (2 miles), Windsor Park School (3.8 miles) and Donaldson's School (5.1 miles).
Inclusion and Wellbeing ServiceWindsor Park SchoolDonaldson's School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Polmont Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Strowan Road (opposite), 30 metres away.
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 Carrongrange High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Carrongrange High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot.
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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 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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Questions parents ask about Carrongrange High School
What is the catchment area for Carrongrange High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Carrongrange 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 Falkirk. Falkirk publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Carrongrange High School?
If you live in Carrongrange High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Falkirk will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Falkirk - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Carrongrange High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot. 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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Carrongrange High School?
Carrongrange High School is at Oxgang Road, Grangemouth, Grangemouth, FK3 9HP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)