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Auchinraith Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational279 pupilsBlantyreSouth 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 registered for free school meals63%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support36%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.9Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll279Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Auchinraith Primary School is a council school in Blantyre for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 279 pupils. About 63 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Victoria Street, Blantyre, Blantyre, G72 0BF01698 823286southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200189/our_primary_schools/865/auldhouse_primary_schoolAll 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 Auchinraith Primary School.

Getting a place

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 South Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll279Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals63%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support36%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 2 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
41P1
35P2
36P3
36P4
47P5
44P6
40P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 32032020222023: 30830820232024: 29029020242025: 29229220252026: 2792792026
Since 2022: -41
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll279292290308320
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals63.1%49.4%46.4%39.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)35.5%16.1%18.3%24.7%28.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.6%3.1%3.8%4.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.714.913.512.713.112.713.2
Average class sizeAverage class size19.922.520.722.022.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers20.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.9Scotland 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
St Joseph's Primary SchoolCouncil590 m249HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Blane's Primary SchoolCouncil880 m175HMIE, no open dataCompare
High Blantyre Primary SchoolCouncil980 m249HMIE, no open dataCompare
David Livingstone Memorial Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles249HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Cuthbert's Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles224HMIE, no open dataCompare
Glenlee Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles294HMIE, no open dataCompare
Udston Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles316HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bothwell Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles335HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Auchinraith Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Auchinraith Primary School have?

279 pupils aged 3 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
Victoria Street, Blantyre, Blantyre, G72 0BF
Telephone
01698 823286
Website
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200189/our_primary_schools/865/auldhouse_primary_school
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 3-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8520224
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from