St John Ogilvie High School, HAMILTON
St John Ogilvie High School is a secondary school for pupils in Hamilton. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 88.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St John Ogilvie High School in detail
School in Scotland
St John Ogilvie 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 1209 pupils and 13.7 pupils per teacher.
21% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 49% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.
36% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.8% in 2024/25, and 36.2% 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); the school was 116% full.
96% of pupils who left in 2023/24 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 St John Ogilvie High School are Holy Cross High School (0.9 miles), Calderside Academy (1.1 miles), Hamilton Grammar School (1.3 miles) and Cardinal Newman High School (3 miles).
Holy Cross High SchoolCalderside AcademyHamilton Grammar SchoolCardinal Newman High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Hamilton West Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Udston Road (before), 60 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St John Ogilvie High School are St Cuthbert's Primary School (0.2 miles), Glenlee Primary School (0.3 miles), St Ninian's Primary School (0.4 miles) and Udston Primary School (0.5 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; South Lanarkshire publishes both.
St Cuthbert's Primary SchoolGlenlee Primary SchoolSt Ninian's Primary SchoolUdston 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 St John Ogilvie High School in June 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changeexcellent
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 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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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 8
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 5 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 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.
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Questions parents ask about St John Ogilvie High School
When was St John Ogilvie High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St John Ogilvie High School in June 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as excellent; learning, teaching and assessment as very 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 St John Ogilvie High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St John Ogilvie 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 St John Ogilvie High School?
If you live in St John Ogilvie 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 St John Ogilvie High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 5 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St John Ogilvie High School?
St John Ogilvie High School is at Farm Road, Burnbank, HAMILTON, HAMILTON, ML3 9LA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)