Our Lady's High School - Motherwell, Motherwell
Our Lady's High School - Motherwell is a secondary school for pupils in Motherwell. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 87.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Our Lady's High School - Motherwell in detail
School in Scotland
Our Lady's High School - Motherwell 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 872 pupils and 13.7 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 56% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 22% speak English as an additional language.
44% 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 42.7% 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 74% full.
96% 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Our Lady's High School - Motherwell are Dalziel High School (1.1 miles), Braidhurst High School (1.9 miles), St Aidan's High School (2.3 miles) and Taylor High School (2.3 miles).
Dalziel High SchoolBraidhurst High SchoolSt Aidan's High SchoolTaylor High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Shieldmuir Rail Station, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line.
1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Our Lady's High School (at), 50 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Our Lady's High School - Motherwell are Knowetop Primary School (0.3 miles), Glencairn Primary School (0.6 miles), Muirhouse Primary School (0.6 miles) and St Brendan's 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.
Knowetop Primary SchoolGlencairn Primary SchoolMuirhouse Primary SchoolSt Brendan's 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Our Lady's High School - Motherwell's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 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
Our Lady's High School - Motherwell
Questions parents ask about Our Lady's High School - Motherwell
What is the catchment area for Our Lady's High School - Motherwell?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Our Lady's High School - Motherwell 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 North Lanarkshire. North Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Our Lady's High School - Motherwell?
If you live in Our Lady's High School - Motherwell's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and North Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to North Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Our Lady's High School - Motherwell?
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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Our Lady's High School - Motherwell?
Our Lady's High School - Motherwell is at Dalzell Drive, Motherwell, Motherwell, ML1 2DG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)