Dalziel High School, Motherwell

Dalziel 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 1003 pupils and 13.7 pupils per teacher.

10% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 38% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.

22% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 36% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 90.2% in 2024/25, and 34.1% 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 104% full.

95% of pupils who left in 2023/24 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 97% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Dalziel High School are Braidhurst High School (1 mile), Our Lady's High School - Motherwell (1.1 miles), Taylor High School (1.9 miles) and Hamilton Grammar School (2 miles).

The nearest railway station is Airbles Rail Station, about 550 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Dalziel High School (at), 90 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Dalziel High School are Ladywell Primary School (0.3 miles), Glencairn Primary School (0.6 miles), Cathedral Primary School (0.7 miles) and Logans 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.