Sanderson High School, EAST KILBRIDE
Sanderson High School is a special school for pupils in East Kilbride.
- Attendance
- 88%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Sanderson High School in detail
School in Scotland
Sanderson 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 118 pupils and 3.8 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
19% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 14% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88% in 2024/25, and 36.5% 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).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Sanderson High School are Greenburn School (0.8 miles), West Mains School (1 mile), Kear Campus (3.1 miles) and Hamilton School for the Deaf (3.4 miles).
Greenburn SchoolWest Mains SchoolKear CampusHamilton School for the Deaf
Getting there
The nearest railway station is East Kilbride Rail Station, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.
1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Loch Loyal (after), 400 metres away.
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 Sanderson High School in November 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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
Sanderson High School is a non-denominational secondary school in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland for pupils with additional support needs. The school was established in June 1994 after the merger of Springhall School and Dalton School.
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At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Sanderson High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
3 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.
Commute and house prices
Questions parents ask about Sanderson High School
When was Sanderson High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Sanderson High School in November 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Sanderson High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Sanderson 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 Sanderson High School?
If you live in Sanderson 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 Sanderson High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 3 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 Sanderson High School?
Sanderson High School is at High Common Road, St Leonards, EAST KILBRIDE, EAST KILBRIDE, G74 2LP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)