Eastwood High School, GLASGOW
Eastwood High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 90.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Eastwood High School in detail
School in Scotland
Eastwood 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 1308 pupils and 12.7 pupils per teacher.
9% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 33% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 33% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.8% in 2024/25, and 32.1% 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 107% full.
98% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% 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 Eastwood High School are St Ninian's High School (1.3 miles), Woodfarm High School (1.3 miles), Mearns Castle High School (1.5 miles) and Williamwood High School (2.1 miles).
St Ninian's High SchoolWoodfarm High SchoolMearns Castle High SchoolWilliamwood High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Patterton Rail Station, about 610 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Eastwood High School (at), 160 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Eastwood High School are Crookfur Primary School (0.1 miles), St Cadoc's Primary School (0.8 miles), Kirkhill Primary School (1.3 miles) and Our Lady Of The Missions Primary School (1.3 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; East Renfrewshire publishes both.
Crookfur Primary SchoolSt Cadoc's Primary SchoolKirkhill Primary SchoolOur Lady Of The Missions 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Eastwood High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 East Renfrewshire is 3 (the median across 33 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 Eastwood High School
What is the catchment area for Eastwood High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Eastwood 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 East Renfrewshire. East Renfrewshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Eastwood High School?
If you live in Eastwood High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Renfrewshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Renfrewshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Eastwood High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 East Renfrewshire is 3 (the median across 33 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Eastwood High School?
Eastwood High School is at Capelrig Road, Newton Mearns, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G77 6NQ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)