Woodland View School, GLASGOW
Woodland View School is a special school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 90.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Woodland View School in detail
School in Scotland
Woodland View 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.
Woodland View School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 229 pupils and 4.1 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 35% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.5% in 2024/25, and 29% 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).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Woodland View School are Secondary Wellbeing (1.3 miles), Ashton Secondary School (4.3 miles), Croftcroighn Primary School (4.5 miles) and Craighalbert-Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairments (4.5 miles).
Secondary WellbeingAshton Secondary SchoolCroftcroighn Primary SchoolCraighalbert-Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairments
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Lenzie Rail Station, about 1.6 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Glenluggie Road (opposite), 30 metres away.
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 Woodland View School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 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 East Dunbartonshire is 2 (the median across 45 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 Woodland View School
What is the catchment area for Woodland View School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Woodland View 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 Dunbartonshire. East Dunbartonshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Woodland View School?
If you live in Woodland View School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Dunbartonshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Dunbartonshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Woodland View School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 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 East Dunbartonshire is 2 (the median across 45 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Woodland View School?
Woodland View School is at Bankhead Road, Kirkintilloch, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G66 3LJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)