St Maurice's High School, Cumbernauld
St Maurice's High School is a secondary school for pupils in Cumbernauld. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 89%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Maurice's High School in detail
School in Scotland
St Maurice'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 956 pupils and 14.2 pupils per teacher.
12% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 32% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
18% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 19% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89% in 2024/25, and 36.1% 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 70% 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 St Maurice's High School are Greenfaulds High School (1 mile), Our Lady's High School - Cumbernauld (1.1 miles), Cumbernauld Academy (2.4 miles) and Kilsyth Academy (2.9 miles).
Greenfaulds High SchoolOur Lady's High School - CumbernauldCumbernauld AcademyKilsyth Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Croy Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Maurices Sec School (at), 60 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to St Maurice's High School are Westfield Primary School (0.4 miles), Eastfield Primary School (0.5 miles), Condorrat Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Helen'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.
Westfield Primary SchoolEastfield Primary SchoolCondorrat Primary SchoolSt Helen'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 St Maurice's High School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
St Maurice's High School is a Roman Catholic High School in the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. The catchment area serves the west side of Cumbernauld, Condorrat, Eastfield, Croy, Kilsyth and Moodiesburn.
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At a Glance
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 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 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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Questions parents ask about St Maurice's High School
What is the catchment area for St Maurice's High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Maurice'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 North Lanarkshire. North Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Maurice's High School?
If you live in St Maurice's High School'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 St Maurice's High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Maurice's High School?
St Maurice's High School is at Westfield, Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld, G68 9AG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)