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Firpark Primary School

SpecialMixedCouncilNon-denominational150 pupilsMotherwellNorth 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 support100%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher5.3Scotland 14.1
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas48%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll150Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Firpark Primary School is a council school in Motherwell for boys and girls. It has 150 pupils. About 100 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Milton Street, Motherwell, Motherwell, ML1 1DH01698 274933northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5941All 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 Firpark 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 North Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll150Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support100%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas48%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas3%Scotland 15%
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)
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 11911920222023: 12412420232024: 13013020242025: 14914920252026: 1501502026
Since 2022: +31
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll150149130124119
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals40.9%100.0%100.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio5.35.95.85.95.15.45.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers28.1full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher5.3Scotland 14.1

Nearby schools

The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Cathedral Primary SchoolCouncil0 m517HMIE, no open dataCompare
Muir Street Primary SchoolCouncil360 m213HMIE, no open dataCompare
Braidhurst High SchoolCouncil750 m609HMIE, no open dataCompare
Ladywell Primary SchoolCouncil930 m352HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dalziel High SchoolCouncil0.7 miles1,003HMIE, no open dataCompare
Glencairn Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles345HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Bernadette's PrimaryCouncil0.9 miles164HMIE, no open dataCompare
Clydeview SchoolCouncil0.9 miles48HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Firpark Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Firpark Primary School have?

150 pupils 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
Milton Street, Motherwell, Motherwell, ML1 1DH
Telephone
01698 274933
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5941
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Special school
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
North Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
1000047
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from