Lesmahagow High School, Lesmahagow
Lesmahagow High School is a secondary school for pupils in Lesmahagow.
- Attendance
- 87.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Lesmahagow High School in detail
School in Scotland
Lesmahagow 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 666 pupils and 10.5 pupils per teacher.
29% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 47% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
23% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 15% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 87.1% in 2024/25, and 41% 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 77% full.
95% 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.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Lesmahagow High School.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Abbey Green (before), 160 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Lesmahagow High School are Milton Primary School (0.1 miles) and Woodpark Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; South Lanarkshire publishes both.
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 Lesmahagow High School in February 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
Lesmahagow High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The new school building opened in 2007.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
Keep up with Lesmahagow High School
Getting There
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
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, 0 serious and 2 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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 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
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Questions parents ask about Lesmahagow High School
When was Lesmahagow High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Lesmahagow High School in February 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Lesmahagow High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Lesmahagow 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 South Lanarkshire. South Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Lesmahagow High School?
If you live in Lesmahagow High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and South Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to South Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Lesmahagow 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, 0 serious and 2 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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Lesmahagow High School?
Lesmahagow High School is at Strathaven Road, Lesmahagow, Lesmahagow, ML11 0FS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)