Police were called to the school in Glasgow after staff discovered the class-A drug, with the ‘deeply distressing’ incident ‘rocking everyone’
Cocaine was found inside a five-year-old girl’s schoolbag at a posh private school in Glasgow.
Staff at the Glasgow Academy in Glasgow discovered the class-A drug and alerted the police and social services.
Founded in 1845, the private school has almost 1,700 pupils aged three to 18 and charges between £12,495 and £17,040 a year, depending on the pupil’s year group.
The incident is understood to have happened weeks ago but details are only now emerging, reports the Scottish Daily Mail.
A source said: “To say this has rocked everyone in the school is an understatement. The main concern is for the child.
“We dread to think what might have happened had the child accidentally tasted the substance or even shared it with others.
“The outcome could have been devastating. We all hope the school board and management team are taking the matter seriously.”
The school’s main campus is located at Kelvinbridge, with two other sites on Milngavie and Newlands, which caters for nursery, kindergarten and prep one to four pupils.
The Glasgow Academy is principally located at Kelvinbridge, but also has two further sites in Milngavie and Newlands for Nursery, Kindergarten, and Prep 1-4 pupils.
The Scottish Health Survey has revealed that the number of adults using cocaine in the most affluent areas of the country has doubled in just two years, with figures rising from 2 per cent in 2021 to 4 per cent in 2023.
A spokesman for Glasgow Academy said: “We do not comment on matters relating to individual children. Where any concern is raised, we act on it promptly and work closely with families and relevant authorities to keep every child in our care safe.”
Miles Briggs, the Scottish Conservative health spokesman, added: “This deeply distressing incident hammers home the drug epidemic Scotland is facing.
“It does not bear thinking about what might have happened if this child had ingested this dangerous substance.”
The Mirror has approached Police Scotland for comment.
