Glasgow Gaelic School, GLASGOW

Glasgow Gaelic 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.

Glasgow Gaelic School offers Gaelic-medium education and has a pre-school (nursery) class.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 580 pupils and 11.6 pupils per teacher.

9% of pupils are registered for free school meals and 24% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.

22% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 20% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 90.9% in 2024/25, and 29.5% 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 poor (C); the school was 122% full.

100% 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.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Glasgow Gaelic School are Hillhead High School (0.7 miles), Notre Dame High School (1.2 miles), Bellahouston Academy (1.4 miles) and Hyndland Secondary School (1.4 miles).

The nearest railway station is Exhibition Centre (Glasgow) Rail Station, about 400 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Royal Crescent (opposite), 140 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Glasgow Gaelic School are Anderston Primary School (0.2 miles), St Patrick's Primary School (0.4 miles), Hillhead Primary School (0.5 miles) and Garnetbank 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.