Falkirk High School, Falkirk

Falkirk 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 1123 pupils and 11.8 pupils per teacher.

24% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.

32% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 17% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 87.9% in 2024/25, and 38.5% 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 75% full.

97% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 92% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Falkirk High School are St Mungo's RC High School (0.8 miles), Graeme High School (1.7 miles), Larbert High School (1.7 miles) and Braes High School (3 miles).

The nearest railway station is Falkirk High Rail Station, about 1030 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Falkirk High School (at), 170 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Falkirk High School are Bantaskin Primary School (0.1 miles), Carmuirs Primary School (0.5 miles), St Francis Xavier's RC Primary School (0.8 miles) and Comely Park Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Falkirk publishes both.