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Glencoats Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational173 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 meals56%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support43%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher9.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.6Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll173Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Glencoats Primary School is a council school in Paisley for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 173 pupils. About 56 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Falcon Crescent, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA3 1NS0300 300 0155blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/glencoatsprimaryAll 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 Glencoats 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 roll173Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals56%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support43%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English8%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 1 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
20P1
20P2
27P3
36P4
25P5
27P6
18P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 18618620222023: 18618620232024: 18118120242025: 17917920252026: 1731732026
Since 2022: -13
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll173179181186186
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals55.6%46.0%51.8%43.3%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)42.8%41.9%29.8%29.6%37.6%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language8.1%4.5%5.5%7.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio9.58.99.29.39.510.211.2
Average class sizeAverage class size21.619.922.620.723.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers18.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher9.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.6Scotland 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 Fergus Primary SchoolCouncil240 m155HMIE, no open dataCompare
West Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles389HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles290HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mossvale Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles194HMIE, no open dataCompare
St James's Primary School (Paisley)Council0.9 miles146HMIE, no open dataCompare
Brediland Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles189HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Paul's Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles159HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Catherine's Primary SchoolCouncil1.5 miles252HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Glencoats Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Glencoats Primary School have?

173 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
Falcon Crescent, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA3 1NS
Telephone
0300 300 0155
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/glencoatsprimary
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
Renfrewshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8620024
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from