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Biggar Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational206 pupilsBiggarSouth 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 support21%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll206Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Biggar Primary School is a council school in Biggar for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 206 pupils. About 9 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

John's Loan, Biggar, Biggar, ML12 6ZJ01899 221177blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/biggarprimaryschoolAll 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 Biggar 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 roll206Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support21%Additional support needs
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 8 (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.
22P1
32P2
27P3
23P4
33P5
23P6
46P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 23423420222023: 22722720232024: 20820820242025: 21021020252026: 2062062026
Since 2022: -28
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll206210208227234
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals10.8%14.8%8.8%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)20.9%7.1%5.8%8.4%7.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.8%4.3%4.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.418.317.517.517.717.418.4
Average class sizeAverage class size25.826.326.025.226.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers11.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.4Scotland 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
Coulter Primary SchoolCouncil2.5 miles10HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tinto Primary SchoolCouncil3.4 miles117HMIE, no open dataCompare
Libberton Primary SchoolCouncil3.6 miles26HMIE, no open dataCompare
Black Mount Primary SchoolCouncil3.9 miles46HMIE, no open dataCompare
Broughton Central P SchoolCouncil4.5 miles39HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Biggar Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Biggar Primary School have?

206 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
John's Loan, Biggar, Biggar, ML12 6ZJ
Telephone
01899 221177
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/biggarprimaryschool
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
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
8550921
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from