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Long Calderwood Primary

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational165 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 meals53%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support21%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.6Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll165Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Long Calderwood Primary is a council school in East Kilbride for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 165 pupils. About 53 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Neville, EAST KILBRIDE, East Kilbride, G74 3QT01355 224414longcalderwood-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 Long Calderwood Primary.

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 roll165Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals53%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support21%Additional support needs
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 5 (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.
18P1
24P2
26P3
24P4
26P5
22P6
25P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 17917920222023: 16816820232024: 17117120242025: 16216220252026: 1651652026
Since 2022: -14
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll165162171168179
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals53.2%39.1%27.7%32.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)21.2%18.5%20.5%14.3%20.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.316.016.113.914.915.015.7
Average class sizeAverage class size23.623.124.424.022.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers11.5full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.6Scotland 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 Leonard's Primary SchoolCouncil730 m260HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hunter Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles204HMIE, no open dataCompare
Maxwellton Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles180HMIE, no open dataCompare
Halfmerke Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles198HMIE, no open dataCompare
Blacklaw Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles156HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Hilary's Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles154HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Kenneth's Primary SchoolCouncil1.5 miles512HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mount Cameron Primary SchoolCouncil1.6 miles157HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Long Calderwood Primary a good school?

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

How many pupils does Long Calderwood Primary have?

165 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
Neville, EAST KILBRIDE, East Kilbride, G74 3QT
Telephone
01355 224414
Website
www.longcalderwood-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk
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
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8531420
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from