[4][5] Stonelaw High was rated “excellent” and highlighted as “sector leading” by Education Scotland inspectors in the school’s recent inspection report in 2023.

[3] A separate institution, Gallowflat Public School (named after the mansion house which stood nearby from the 1760s to the 1910s)[6][7] was based on Hamilton Road from 1909.

[citation needed] The mid-19th century Macdonald School building in the heart of Rutherglen was used as an annex for the Academy, which required the pupils to walk approximately 400 yards between the sites.

[3] As with the arrangements for the Macdonald building (which closed for this purpose when Stonelaw High opened), the two-site setup again involved hundreds of pupils walking between departments via several residential streets several times a day, which continued for the next 28 years.

The playing fields, adjacent to the new site but finished in 1996 prior to the construction of the buildings, were previously the recreation grounds for the James Templeton & Co textile factory located at Glasgow Green which had also built some company houses in nearby streets.

[23] The primary schools whose pupils progress to Stonelaw include Bankhead, Burgh, Burnside, Calderwood and Spittal located within Rutherglen, James Aiton in Cambuslang and Park View in Halfway.