Scots schools with highest Covid-19 infections since start of pandemic

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The Scottish schools with the highest Covid-19 outbreaks since the pandemic have been named by Public Health Scotland.The Daily Record can reveal that Scotland has seen almost 300,000 school children test positive for Covid-19 since the virus outbreak.

289,293 pupils tested positive at least once in either the 2020/21 or 2021/22 school years.Three Scottish schools in North Lanarkshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow had significant outbreaks with more than 100 pupils testing positive during this time period.A full breakdown of the 100 schools is available at the bottom of this article.Public Health Scotland said there were 825,420 pupils registered in Scotland across these past two years, meaning over one in three children in Scotland has been infected.

The data up to April 6, 2022, does not specify where the infection was acquired, or whether pupils were present in school at any point in their illness.The FOI also revealed that there were a whopping 6,491 occasions when a school in Scotland had a Covid-19 outbreak, involving more than than 10 pupils.These 6491 Covid-19 outbreaks occurred in 1,308 individual schools in the country.St Aidan's High School in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire had the highest outbreak with 110 pupils infected in August of last year.George Watson's College in Edinburgh and St Andrew's Secondary in Glasgow were second and third highest with 102 and 101 infections respectively.The 100 Scottish schools with the highest Covid-19 outbreaks in the past two years are listed below. Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - Sign up to our daily newsletter here .