King's Park Secondary School, GLASGOW
King's Park Secondary School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 87.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
King's Park Secondary School in detail
School in Scotland
King's Park Secondary 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 914 pupils and 11 pupils per teacher.
33% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 58% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 25% speak English as an additional language.
27% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 3% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 87.7% in 2024/25, and 39.7% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 78% full.
94% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 94% 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 King's Park Secondary School are St Margaret Mary's Secondary School (0.8 miles), Castlemilk High School (1.1 miles), Holyrood Secondary School (1.3 miles) and Shawlands Academy (1.8 miles).
St Margaret Mary's Secondary SchoolCastlemilk High SchoolHolyrood Secondary SchoolShawlands Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Kings Park Rail Station, about 650 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fetlar Drive (opposite), 150 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to King's Park Secondary School are St Mirin's Primary School (0.2 miles), St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class (0.3 miles), Croftfoot Primary School (0.5 miles) and King's Park 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.
St Mirin's Primary SchoolSt Fillan's Primary School & Nursery ClassCroftfoot Primary SchoolKing's Park 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 King's Park Secondary School in December 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 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
King's Park Secondary School, on Fetlar Drive, in the King's Park area of south Glasgow, is a Scottish non-denominational state school. It was established in 1962.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 13
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 3
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 4 serious and 8 slight.
3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot.
3 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 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 King's Park Secondary School
When was King's Park Secondary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of King's Park Secondary School in December 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for King's Park Secondary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and King's Park Secondary 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 Glasgow City. Glasgow City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to King's Park Secondary School?
If you live in King's Park Secondary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Glasgow City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Glasgow City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near King's Park Secondary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 4 serious and 8 slight. 3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot. 3 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is King's Park Secondary School?
King's Park Secondary School is at 14 Fetlar Drive, Simshill, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G44 5BL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)