Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen
Stonelaw High School is a secondary school for pupils in Rutherglen.
- Attendance
- 88.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Stonelaw High School in detail
School in Scotland
Stonelaw 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 1322 pupils and 13.8 pupils per teacher.
19% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 38% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.
32% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 21% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.7% in 2024/25, and 37.2% 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 poor (C); the school was 96% full.
98% 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 Stonelaw High School are Trinity High School (0.4 miles), Cathkin High School (0.8 miles), Castlemilk High School (1.9 miles) and St Margaret Mary's Secondary School (2 miles).
Trinity High SchoolCathkin High SchoolCastlemilk High SchoolSt Margaret Mary's Secondary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Burnside (Strathclyde) Rail Station, about 590 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Underwood Road (at), 150 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Stonelaw High School are Calderwood Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Burnside Primary School (0.5 miles), St Mark's Primary School (Rutherglen) (0.7 miles) and St Anthony's Primary School (0.7 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; South Lanarkshire publishes both.
Calderwood Primary SchoolBurnside Primary SchoolSt Mark's Primary School (Rutherglen)St Anthony'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 Stonelaw High School in May 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changeexcellent
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionexcellent
- 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
Stonelaw High School is a non-denominational state high school located in Rutherglen, Scotland near the city of Glasgow.
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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
- 9
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 7 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
4 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 Stonelaw High School
When was Stonelaw High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Stonelaw High School in May 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as excellent; learning, teaching and assessment as very good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as excellent and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Stonelaw High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Stonelaw 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 Stonelaw High School?
If you live in Stonelaw 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 Stonelaw High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 7 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 4 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 Stonelaw High School?
Stonelaw High School is at 140 Calderwood Road, Rutherglen, Rutherglen, G73 3BP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)