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Fairlie Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational122 pupilsNorth 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 getting extra support24%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.3Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll122Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Fairlie Primary School is a council school in Fairlie for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 122 pupils.

Morton Way, FAIRLIE, Fairlie, KA29 0BW01475 568441blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/fairlieprimaryAll 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 Fairlie 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 37 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 roll122Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support24%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
The youngest year is bigger than P7, so the roll is likely to grow.
21P1
19P2
20P3
11P4
17P5
25P6
9P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 929220222023: 999920232024: 10410420242025: 10810820252026: 1221222026
Since 2022: +30
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll1221081049992
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)23.8%24.1%18.3%17.2%18.5%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.414.414.113.412.114.511.9
Average class sizeAverage class size20.321.620.819.818.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.5full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.3Scotland 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 Mary's Primary SchoolCouncil2.8 miles106HMIE, no open dataCompare
Largs Primary SchoolCouncil2.8 miles398HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cumbrae Primary SchoolCouncil3.0 miles38HMIE, no open dataCompare
West Kilbride Primary SchoolCouncil4.4 miles313HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Fairlie Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Fairlie Primary School have?

122 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
Morton Way, FAIRLIE, Fairlie, KA29 0BW
Telephone
01475 568441
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/fairlieprimary
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
North Ayrshire
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
8211221
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from