School Chooser

Castlepark Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational322 pupilsIrvineNorth Ayrshire
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 meals67%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support35%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll322Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Castlepark Primary School is a council school in Irvine for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 322 pupils. About 67 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Carron Place, IRVINE, Irvine, KA12 9LQ01294 279764blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/castleparkprimaryAll 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 Castlepark Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Ayrshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 5.1 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 Ayrshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll322Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals67%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support35%Additional support needs
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.
34P1
42P2
35P3
55P4
45P5
55P6
56P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 45545520222023: 43143120232024: 37637620242025: 36536520252026: 3223222026
Since 2022: -133
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll322365376431455
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals66.7%44.8%42.6%47.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)35.1%31.8%27.1%23.9%26.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language1.4%1.3%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.716.114.415.816.817.517.5
Average class sizeAverage class size23.024.323.525.426.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers21.9full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 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
Montgomerie Park Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles175HMIE, no open dataCompare
Woodlands Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles339HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mark's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles216HMIE, no open dataCompare
Glebe Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles256HMIE, no open dataCompare
Annick Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles355HMIE, no open dataCompare
Loudoun-Montgomery Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles138HMIE, no open dataCompare
Lawthorn Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles263HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Ogilvie Primary SchoolCouncil1.6 miles152HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Castlepark Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Castlepark Primary School have?

322 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
Carron Place, IRVINE, Irvine, KA12 9LQ
Telephone
01294 279764
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/castleparkprimary
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 Ayrshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8211825
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from