Clydebank High School, CLYDEBANK
Clydebank High School is a secondary school for pupils in Clydebank.
- Attendance
- 87.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Clydebank High School in detail
School in Scotland
Clydebank 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 1166 pupils and 13.7 pupils per teacher.
32% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
50% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 2% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 87.9% in 2024/25, and 41.2% 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 good (A); the school was 78% full.
90% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 96% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Clydebank High School are St Peter the Apostle High School (0.6 miles), Park Mains High School (1.7 miles), Drumchapel High School (1.8 miles) and Trinity High School (2.6 miles).
St Peter the Apostle High SchoolPark Mains High SchoolDrumchapel High SchoolTrinity High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Singer Rail Station, about 650 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Osborne Street (at), 210 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Clydebank High School are Kilbowie Primary School (0.2 miles), St Stephen's Primary School (0.3 miles), St Eunan's Primary School (0.5 miles) and Our Lady of Loretto Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; West Dunbartonshire publishes both.
Kilbowie Primary SchoolSt Stephen's Primary SchoolSt Eunan's Primary SchoolOur Lady of Loretto 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Clydebank High School in March 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Clydebank High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Clydebank, Scotland. It is one of three non-denominational secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
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Getting There
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 3 serious and 0 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 West Dunbartonshire is 4 (the median across 41 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
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Questions parents ask about Clydebank High School
When was Clydebank High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Clydebank High School in March 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as very good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Clydebank High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Clydebank 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 West Dunbartonshire. West Dunbartonshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Clydebank High School?
If you live in Clydebank High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Dunbartonshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Dunbartonshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Clydebank High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 3 serious and 0 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 West Dunbartonshire is 4 (the median across 41 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Clydebank High School?
Clydebank High School is at Janetta Street, CLYDEBANK, CLYDEBANK, G81 3EJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)