Our Lady's High School - Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld

Our Lady's High School - Cumbernauld 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 876 pupils and 13.2 pupils per teacher.

10% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 34% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.

13% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 25% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 90.7% in 2024/25, and 30.7% 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 75% full.

94% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 97% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Our Lady's High School - Cumbernauld are Greenfaulds High School (0.6 miles), St Maurice's High School (1.1 miles), Cumbernauld Academy (1.3 miles) and Kilsyth Academy (3.5 miles).

The nearest railway station is Greenfaulds Rail Station, about 1100 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Liddel Road (opposite), 250 metres away.

The primary schools closest to Our Lady's High School - Cumbernauld are Ravenswood Primary School (0.2 miles), St Mary's Primary School (Cumbernauld) (0.2 miles), Woodlands Primary School (0.6 miles) and Baird Memorial Primary School (0.6 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; North Lanarkshire publishes both.