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Lybster Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational59 pupilsWickHighland
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 support51%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll59Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Lybster Primary School is a council school in Wick for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 59 pupils. About 19 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

Lybster, Wick, Wick, KW3 6BJ01593 721224lybsterprimary.wordpress.comAll 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 Lybster Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Highland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 164 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

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 Highland council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll59Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support51%Additional support needs
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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
10P3
8P4
11P5
11P6
9P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 808020222023: 747420232024: 646420242025: 585820252026: 59592026
Since 2022: -21
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll5958647480
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals36.4%19.2%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)50.8%43.1%40.6%36.5%35.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.413.815.614.216.716.113.1
Average class sizeAverage class size19.719.321.318.520.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers4.1full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.7Scotland 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

No other schools of this phase within 8 km.

Questions parents ask

Is Lybster Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Lybster Primary School have?

59 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
Lybster, Wick, Wick, KW3 6BJ
Telephone
01593 721224
Website
lybsterprimary.wordpress.com
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
Highland
Setting
Remote rural areas
SEED code
5100925
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from