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Greenhills Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational199 pupilsEast KilbrideSouth 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 registered for free school meals50%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support54%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher9.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size14.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll199Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Greenhills Primary School is a council school in East Kilbride for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 199 pupils. About 50 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Cedar Drive, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, G75 9JD01355 241646greenhills-pri.s-lanark.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 Greenhills 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 South Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll199Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals50%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support54%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%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 3 (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.
21P1
21P2
34P3
22P4
41P5
26P6
34P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 26126120222023: 22422420232024: 22022020242025: 20920920252026: 1991992026
Since 2022: -62
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll199209220224261
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals50.0%30.3%22.6%25.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)54.3%58.9%66.8%52.2%59.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.5%4.3%4.5%4.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio9.79.49.89.310.311.010.9
Average class sizeAverage class size14.213.914.716.015.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers20.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher9.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size14.2Scotland 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
South Park Primary SchoolCouncil630 m181HMIE, no open dataCompare
Castlefield Primary SchoolCouncil740 m150HMIE, no open dataCompare
Heathery Knowe Primary SchoolCouncil800 m248HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Louise's Primary SchoolCouncil880 m189HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Vincent's Primary SchoolCouncil900 m350HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles345HMIE, no open dataCompare
Crosshouse Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles350HMIE, no open dataCompare
Murray Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles199HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Greenhills Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Greenhills Primary School have?

199 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
Cedar Drive, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, G75 9JD
Telephone
01355 241646
Website
www.greenhills-pri.s-lanark.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
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8530920
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from