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Bushes Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational302 pupilsPaisleyRenfrewshire
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 meals23%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support29%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher17.0Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas17%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll302Census September 2025

Bushes Primary School is a council school in Paisley for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 302 pupils. About 23 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Grampian Avenue, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA2 8DW0300 300 0149bushes.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 Bushes 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 roll302Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support29%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas17%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas39%Scotland 15%
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
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
29P1
37P2
45P3
44P4
56P5
41P6
50P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 36736720222023: 36036020232024: 33033020242025: 31231220252026: 3023022026
Since 2022: -65
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll302312330360367
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals23.1%13.0%8.7%12.5%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)28.5%29.2%29.1%11.9%10.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.0%3.2%1.5%2.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio17.018.117.918.218.416.318.0
Average class sizeAverage class size25.226.025.425.726.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers17.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher17.0Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 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 Peter's Primary SchoolCouncil360 m214HMIE, no open dataCompare
Lochfield Primary SchoolCouncil970 m272HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Charles' Primary SchoolCouncil990 m371HMIE, no open dataCompare
Langcraigs Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles267HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles290HMIE, no open dataCompare
Brediland Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles189HMIE, no open dataCompare
West Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles389HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Paul's Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles159HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Bushes Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Bushes Primary School have?

302 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
Grampian Avenue, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA2 8DW
Telephone
0300 300 0149
Website
www.bushes.renfrewshire.sch.uk
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
Renfrewshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8624623
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from