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Aitkenhead Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational182 pupilsUddingstonNorth Lanarkshire
School Chooser ScoreNot scoredScotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools, so we can't give its schools a score. Pupil numbers, free school meals, extra support, staffing and class sizes are below.
Pupils getting extra support20%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size26.0Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas12%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll182Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Aitkenhead Primary School is a council school in Uddingston for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 182 pupils. About 17 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

Lincoln Avenue, Tannochside, UDDINGSTON, Uddingston, G71 5QZ01698 522710blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/aitkenheadprimaryschoolblogAll details

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by HM Inspectorate of Education. Its reports grade a few areas on a scale from excellent to unsatisfactory, but the grades aren't published as a list we can use.

Results

Scotland publishes no school-level exam results as open data.

Leaver attainment and destinations for individual schools appear only on the Scottish Government's School Information Dashboard, which cannot be reproduced here. Open the dashboard and search for Aitkenhead Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Lanarkshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 2.6 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

There is no entrance test. Every address in Scotland has a catchment primary and secondary school. If you want a different school, you ask the council for a place there (a placing request).

You apply through North Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll182Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support20%Additional support needs
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas12%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas30%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 7 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
25P1
22P2
23P3
29P4
27P5
24P6
32P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 17317320222023: 18918920232024: 18418420242025: 17917920252026: 1821822026
Since 2022: +9
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll182179184189173
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals20.4%20.0%17.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)19.8%18.4%4.3%6.3%7.5%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.618.315.616.016.014.917.5
Average class sizeAverage class size26.025.626.323.624.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers9.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size26.0Scotland 21.0

Nearby schools

The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Tannochside Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles358HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John The Baptist Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles331HMIE, no open dataCompare
Muiredge Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles320HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Paul II PrimaryCouncil1.2 miles369HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bargeddie Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles109HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Kevin's Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles178HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Monica's Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles178HMIE, no open dataCompare
Old Monkland Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles116HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Aitkenhead Primary School a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Aitkenhead Primary School yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Aitkenhead Primary School have?

182 pupils aged 4 to 11 were on the roll in September 2025.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
Lincoln Avenue, Tannochside, UDDINGSTON, Uddingston, G71 5QZ
Telephone
01698 522710
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/aitkenheadprimaryschoolblog
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 4-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
North Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8519323
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from