I don't have recent experience of Shawlands Academy (ds left c6 years ago, which also meant I was finally 
able to leave the Parent Council) but I've heard good reports about the new headteacher (the old headteacher, who was excellent, retired after ds went off to uni). A family relative works in the education department and has lots of dealings with head teachers across the city and really rates her.
A depute head with responsibility for ASN and (I think) the Pupil Equality Funding (and something else?) was recruited about 6 years ago: the old headteacher did a lot of juggling of responsibilities to ensure she had enough "points" to have this depute head, as she saw the ASN as important.
Pastoral care was taken seriously and one of the reasons we particularly like the school was that they strived to look at the young people holistically, celebrating non-academic achievements alongside academic ones.
It gets (I don't think this has changed) good results considering the challenges it faces with not only a very wide demographic, with pupils from the leafy suburbs of Pollokshields alongside some of the most deprived areas of Glasgow in Govanhill (a very high proportion of SIMD 1 & 2 pupils), a very high proportion of Roma pupils, as well as (the last I heard) 55 languages spoken at the school. 
It was/is a bone of contention that the exam result "tables", even those that do the "Virtual Comparitor" calculations (which take into account demographics), don't take the proportions of EAL (English as an Additional Language) pupils into consideration 
- so the results it achieves are (IMHO) even better than they appear.
Ds was certainly challenged by them academically (but was never made to feel like a nerd because he was in the top sets) and his sporting achievements (rugby) were also celebrated.
It did him good to be in a multi-cultural school and it also helped him understand his privilege.