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High Mill Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational71 pupilsCarlukeSouth 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 support54%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher11.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll71Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

High Mill Primary School is a council school in Carluke for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 71 pupils. About 41 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Market Road, Carluke, Carluke, ML8 4BE01555 772580highmill-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 High Mill 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 roll71Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support54%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.
9P1
12P4
14P5
10P6
15P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 969620222023: 868620232024: 818120242025: 747420252026: 71712026
Since 2022: -25
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll7174818696
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals39.3%43.5%40.7%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)53.5%51.4%19.8%12.8%13.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio11.89.110.39.613.712.113.7
Average class sizeAverage class size23.718.520.321.524.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers6.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher11.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.7Scotland 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
Carluke Primary SchoolCouncil310 m210HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Athanasius' Primary SchoolCouncil570 m225HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kirkton Primary SchoolCouncil610 m149HMIE, no open dataCompare
Crawforddyke Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles403HMIE, no open dataCompare
Braidwood Primary SchoolCouncil1.8 miles131HMIE, no open dataCompare
Law Primary SchoolCouncil1.9 miles222HMIE, no open dataCompare
Morningside Primary SchoolCouncil3.1 miles164HMIE, no open dataCompare
Netherburn Primary SchoolCouncil3.2 miles84HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is High Mill Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does High Mill Primary School have?

71 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
Market Road, Carluke, Carluke, ML8 4BE
Telephone
01555 772580
Website
www.highmill-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
8550824
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from