Wallace High School, STIRLING
Wallace High School is a secondary school for pupils in Stirling.
- Attendance
- 90.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Wallace High School in detail
School in Scotland
Wallace 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.
Wallace High School offers Gaelic-medium education.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 1221 pupils and 12.7 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 45% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 8% speak English as an additional language.
29% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 28% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.9% in 2024/25, and 31.6% 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 102% full.
95% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 95% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Wallace High School in its own words
From the headteacher's welcome: "Welcome to Wallace High School - a modern Scottish comprehensive situated at the heart of historic Stirling. We are a community of just under 1,200 pupils, with our catchment encompassing six main associated Primary schools: Bridge of Allan, Castleview, Cornton, Fallin, Raploch and Riverside. We are immensely proud of our school and our wider community."
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, rugby, basketball, swimming, dance, STEM and Duke of Edinburgh.
Headteacher's welcome (school website)Clubs (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Wallace High School are St Modan's High School (1.7 miles), Stirling High School (2.6 miles), Bannockburn High School (3.1 miles) and Dunblane High School (3.5 miles).
St Modan's High SchoolStirling High SchoolBannockburn High SchoolDunblane High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stirling Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Wallace High School (at), 120 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Wallace High School are Cornton Primary School (0.6 miles), Bridge Of Allan Primary (0.7 miles), Riverside Primary School (1.1 miles) and Raploch Primary School (1.1 miles). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Stirling publishes both.
Cornton Primary SchoolBridge Of Allan PrimaryRiverside Primary SchoolRaploch 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 Wallace High School in May 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 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.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Social & online
Keep up with Wallace High School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 8
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- 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, 5 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on a bicycle.
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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 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.
Commute and house prices
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Wallace High School
When was Wallace High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Wallace High School in May 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Wallace High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Wallace 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 Stirling. Stirling publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Wallace High School?
If you live in Wallace High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Wallace 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, 5 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on a bicycle. 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Wallace High School?
Wallace High School is at Airthrey Road, STIRLING, STIRLING, FK9 5HW.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)