Uddingston Grammar School, Uddingston
Uddingston Grammar School is a secondary school for pupils in Uddingston.
- Attendance
- 88.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Uddingston Grammar School in detail
School in Scotland
Uddingston Grammar 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 1389 pupils and 12.6 pupils per teacher.
11% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% 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 20% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 88.7% in 2024/25, and 39.8% 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 104% 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 Uddingston Grammar School are Calderside Academy (2.1 miles), Bannerman High School (2.2 miles), Cardinal Newman High School (2.2 miles) and Bellshill Academy (2.9 miles).
Calderside AcademyBannerman High SchoolCardinal Newman High SchoolBellshill Academy
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Uddingston Rail Station, about 350 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Uddingston Grammar School are St John The Baptist Primary School (0.6 miles), Muiredge Primary School (0.6 miles), Aitkenhead Primary School (1 mile) and Tannochside Primary School (1.1 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; South Lanarkshire publishes both.
St John The Baptist Primary SchoolMuiredge Primary SchoolAitkenhead Primary SchoolTannochside 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 Uddingston Grammar School in May 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 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
Uddingston Grammar School is a mainstream state school in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is one of 17 secondary schools operated by South Lanarkshire Council.
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At a Glance
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 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 Uddingston Grammar School
When was Uddingston Grammar School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Uddingston Grammar School in May 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; 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 Uddingston Grammar School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Uddingston Grammar 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 Uddingston Grammar School?
If you live in Uddingston Grammar 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 Uddingston Grammar School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 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 Uddingston Grammar School?
Uddingston Grammar School is at Old Glasgow Road, Uddingston, Uddingston, G71 7BT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)