Drumchapel High School, GLASGOW
Drumchapel High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 78.6%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Drumchapel High School in detail
School in Scotland
Drumchapel 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 793 pupils and 9.8 pupils per teacher.
62% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 72% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 15% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 78.6% in 2024/25, and 59.4% 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 84% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2024/25 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Drumchapel High School are St Peter the Apostle High School (1.1 miles), Bearsden Academy (1.2 miles), Clydebank High School (1.8 miles) and Knightswood Secondary School (2 miles).
St Peter the Apostle High SchoolBearsden AcademyClydebank High SchoolKnightswood Secondary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Drumchapel Rail Station, about 1050 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Drumchapel High School (at), 180 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Drumchapel High School are Langfaulds Primary School (0.2 miles), St Clare's Primary School (0.2 miles), Camstradden Primary School (0.5 miles) and Antonine Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Glasgow City publishes both.
Langfaulds Primary SchoolSt Clare's Primary SchoolCamstradden Primary SchoolAntonine 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 Drumchapel High School in March 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementweak
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 Drumchapel High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 12
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 12 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 7 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise.
1 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 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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Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
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Questions parents ask about Drumchapel High School
When was Drumchapel High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Drumchapel High School in March 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as weak, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Drumchapel High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Drumchapel 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 Glasgow City. Glasgow City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Drumchapel High School?
If you live in Drumchapel High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Glasgow City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Glasgow City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Drumchapel High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 12 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 7 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise. 1 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Drumchapel High School?
Drumchapel High School is at 340 Kinfauns Drive, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G15 7SQ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)