Denny High School, Denny
Denny High School is a secondary school for pupils in Denny.
- Attendance
- 89.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Denny High School in detail
School in Scotland
Denny 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 1397 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.
21% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
12% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 17% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89.4% in 2024/25, and 32.4% 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 86% full.
97% 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 Denny High School are Larbert High School (3.4 miles), Falkirk High School (3.8 miles) and St Mungo's RC High School (4.1 miles).
Larbert High SchoolFalkirk High SchoolSt Mungo's RC High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Larbert Rail Station, about 2.6 miles away in a straight line.
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Denny High School (at), 90 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Denny High School are St Patrick's RC Primary School (0.5 miles), Denny Primary School (0.7 miles), Nethermains Primary School (0.8 miles) and Dunipace Primary School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Falkirk publishes both.
St Patrick's RC Primary SchoolDenny Primary SchoolNethermains Primary SchoolDunipace 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 Denny High School in March 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Denny High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people 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 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.
Commute and house prices
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Denny High School
When was Denny High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Denny High School in March 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Denny High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Denny 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 Denny High School?
If you live in Denny 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 Denny High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people 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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Denny High School?
Denny High School is at Herbertshire Park, Denny, Denny, FK6 6EE.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)