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Barsail Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational336 pupilsErskineRenfrewshire
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 meals11%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support31%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher19.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll336Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Barsail Primary School is a council school in Erskine for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 336 pupils. About 11 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Park Moor, ERSKINE, Erskine, PA8 7HL0300 300 0146barsail.renfrewshire.sch.ukAll 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 Barsail 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 Renfrewshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll336Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals11%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support31%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English0%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
45P1
51P2
40P3
51P4
44P5
52P6
53P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 31131120222023: 31631620232024: 30830820242025: 31031020252026: 3363362026
Since 2022: +25
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll336310308316311
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals11.4%12.0%9.0%15.2%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)30.7%21.0%14.9%14.6%24.1%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio19.817.920.118.219.017.619.5
Average class sizeAverage class size25.825.825.724.325.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers17.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher19.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 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 Anne's Primary SchoolCouncil480 m131HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rashielea Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles140HMIE, no open dataCompare
Inchinnan Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles108HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bargarran Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles229HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Bosco Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles236HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady of Loretto Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles248HMIE, no open dataCompare
Clydemuir Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles127HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Stephen's Primary SchoolCouncil1.5 miles232HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Barsail Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Barsail Primary School have?

336 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
Park Moor, ERSKINE, Erskine, PA8 7HL
Telephone
0300 300 0146
Website
www.barsail.renfrewshire.sch.uk
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
Renfrewshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8633223
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from