Hawick High School, ROXBURGHSHIRE
Hawick High School is a secondary school for pupils in Roxburghshire.
- Attendance
- 89.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Hawick High School in detail
School in Scotland
Hawick 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 807 pupils and 11.1 pupils per teacher.
20% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 51% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.
41% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89.3% in 2024/25, and 37.2% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as poor (C); the school was 99% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2022/23 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 93% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Hawick High School.
17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hawick High School (at), 120 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Hawick High School are Drumlanrig St Cuthbert's Primary School (0.2 miles), Wilton Primary School (0.6 miles), Trinity Primary School (0.7 miles) and Stirches Primary School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Scottish Borders publishes both.
Drumlanrig St Cuthbert's Primary SchoolWilton Primary SchoolTrinity Primary SchoolStirches 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 Hawick High School in March 2023.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
About
Hawick High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders. As well as serving the town, it also takes in pupils from as far away as Newcastleton.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 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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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Hawick High School
When was Hawick High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Hawick High School in March 2023.
What is the catchment area for Hawick High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Hawick 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 Scottish Borders. Scottish Borders publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Hawick High School?
If you live in Hawick High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Scottish Borders will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Scottish Borders - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Hawick High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 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 Scottish Borders is 1 (the median across 64 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Hawick High School?
Hawick High School is at Buccleuch Road, Hawick, ROXBURGHSHIRE, ROXBURGHSHIRE, TD9 0EG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)