Notre Dame High School, GLASGOW
Notre Dame High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 89.6%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Notre Dame High School in detail
School in Scotland
Notre Dame 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 799 pupils and 12.6 pupils per teacher.
33% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 66% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 42% speak English as an additional language.
45% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 17% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89.6% in 2024/25, and 36.6% 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 100% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2020/21 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 96% 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 Notre Dame High School are Hyndland Secondary School (0.4 miles), Hillhead High School (0.6 miles), Cleveden Secondary School (0.6 miles) and Glasgow Gaelic School (1.2 miles).
Hyndland Secondary SchoolHillhead High SchoolCleveden Secondary SchoolGlasgow Gaelic School
Getting there
The nearest tram or metro stop is Hillhead SPT Subway Station, about 480 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Horselethill Road (after), 280 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Notre Dame High School are Notre Dame Primary School (0.3 miles), Hyndland Primary School (0.5 miles), Hillhead Primary School (0.7 miles) and St Charles' Primary School (0.8 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Glasgow City publishes both.
Notre Dame Primary SchoolHyndland Primary SchoolHillhead Primary SchoolSt Charles' 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 Notre Dame High School in January 2024.
- 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 achievementvery good
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 21
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 9
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 21 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 9 serious and 11 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
4 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 Notre Dame High School
When was Notre Dame High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Notre Dame High School in January 2024. 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 very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Notre Dame High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame High School?
If you live in Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 21 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 9 serious and 11 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 4 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 Notre Dame High School?
Notre Dame High School is at 160 Observatory Road, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G12 9LN.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)