Drummond Community High School, Edinburgh
Drummond Community High School is a secondary school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 88.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Drummond Community High School in detail
School in Scotland
Drummond Community 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 636 pupils and 11.7 pupils per teacher.
21% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 64% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 19% speak English as an additional language.
10% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 30% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.7% in 2024/25, and 37.7% 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); the school was 106% full.
91% of pupils who left in 2023/24 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 Drummond Community High School are Leith Academy (1.1 miles), Trinity Academy (1.1 miles), Broughton High School (1.2 miles) and St Thomas Of Aquin's High School (1.5 miles).
Leith AcademyTrinity AcademyBroughton High SchoolSt Thomas Of Aquin's High School
Getting there
The nearest tram or metro stop is Picardy Place (Edinburgh Trams), about 530 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bellevue Crescent (outside), 90 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Drummond Community High School are St Mary's RC Primary School (Edinburgh) (0.1 miles), Broughton Primary School (0.3 miles), Leith Walk Primary School (0.5 miles) and Stockbridge Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Edinburgh City publishes both.
St Mary's RC Primary School (Edinburgh)Broughton Primary SchoolLeith Walk Primary SchoolStockbridge 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 Drummond Community High School in February 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 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
Drummond Community High School (DCHS) is a non-denominational secondary school built originally in 1926 by John Alexander Carfrae which serves the area of north east Edinburgh. Drummond Community High School is on Bellevue Place and was originally known as Bellevue Junior Secondary School.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
Keep up with Drummond Community High School
Getting There
Tube / Metro / Tram
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 33
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 10
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 33 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 10 serious and 23 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
2 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 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 Drummond Community High School
When was Drummond Community High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Drummond Community High School in February 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Drummond Community High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Drummond Community 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 Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Drummond Community High School?
If you live in Drummond Community High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Edinburgh City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Edinburgh City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Drummond Community High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 33 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 10 serious and 23 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 2 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Drummond Community High School?
Drummond Community High School is at 41 Bellevue Place, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH7 4BS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)