Lochend Community High School, GLASGOW
Lochend Community High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 77.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Lochend Community High School in detail
School in Scotland
Lochend Community 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 453 pupils and 8.3 pupils per teacher.
63% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 72% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 11% speak English as an additional language.
92% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 77.8% in 2024/25, and 64.7% 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 48% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2023/24 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Lochend Community High School are Bannerman High School (1.4 miles), St Ambrose High School (2.3 miles), Eastbank Academy (2.4 miles) and St Andrew's Secondary School (2.4 miles).
Bannerman High SchoolSt Ambrose High SchoolEastbank AcademySt Andrew's Secondary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Easterhouse Rail Station, about 960 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Errogie Street (before), 60 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Lochend Community High School are St Benedict's Primary School (0.1 miles), Oakwood Primary School (0.4 miles), Swinton Primary School (0.8 miles) and Garrowhill Primary School (1.1 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Glasgow City publishes both.
St Benedict's Primary SchoolOakwood Primary SchoolSwinton Primary SchoolGarrowhill 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 Lochend Community High School in March 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentweak
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementweak
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
Lochend Community High School is a non-denominational, coeducational, state secondary school in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow. The school is within the local authority of Glasgow City Council.
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At a Glance
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Boarding
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Nursery
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Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on a bicycle.
1 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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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
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Questions parents ask about Lochend Community High School
When was Lochend Community High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Lochend Community High School in March 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as weak; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as weak, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Lochend Community High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Lochend Community 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 Glasgow City. Glasgow City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Lochend Community High School?
If you live in Lochend Community High 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 Lochend Community High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on a bicycle. 1 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 Lochend Community High School?
Lochend Community High School is at 20 Cairnbrook Road, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G34 0NZ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)