St Luke's High School, GLASGOW
St Luke's High School is a secondary school for pupils in Glasgow. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 90.6%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Luke's High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Luke's 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 645 pupils and 10 pupils per teacher.
18% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 40% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
21% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.6% in 2024/25, and 30.9% 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 76% full.
100% of pupils who left in 2024/25 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 Luke's High School are Barrhead High School (0.9 miles), Eastwood High School (2.3 miles), St Andrew's Academy (2.9 miles) and St Paul's High School (3.1 miles).
Barrhead High SchoolEastwood High SchoolSt Andrew's AcademySt Paul's High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Balgray Rail Station, about 370 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Luke's High School are St Mark's Primary School (0.3 miles), Hillview Primary School (0.3 miles), Carlibar Primary School (1.1 miles) and St John's Primary School (1.2 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; East Renfrewshire publishes both.
St Mark's Primary SchoolHillview Primary SchoolCarlibar Primary SchoolSt John'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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Luke's High School in March 2024.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery 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.
About
St Luke's High School is a school in the Auchenback area of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, in the Greater Glasgow area of Scotland. The school focuses on its Catholic ethos in teaching and its close relationship with the communities of Barrhead and Neilston, also rarely serving areas further afield including Paisley, Pollok, Glenburn and Uplawmoor.
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At a Glance
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Nursery
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 1
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, 1 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
2 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 East Renfrewshire is 3 (the median across 33 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 Luke's High School
When was St Luke's High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Luke's High School in March 2024. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment 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 Luke's High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Luke's 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 East Renfrewshire. East Renfrewshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Luke's High School?
If you live in St Luke's High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Renfrewshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Renfrewshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Luke's High School?
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, 1 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 2 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 East Renfrewshire is 3 (the median across 33 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Luke's High School?
St Luke's High School is at 25 Springfield Road, Barrhead, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G78 2SG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)