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Mount Cameron Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational157 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 meals42%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support34%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher11.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.4Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas8%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll157Census September 2025

Mount Cameron Primary School is a council school in East Kilbride for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 157 pupils. About 42 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Blacklaw Drive, St Leonard's, EAST KILBRIDE, East Kilbride, G74 2EX01355 232062mountcameron-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 Mount Cameron 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 roll157Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals42%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support34%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas8%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas7%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 6 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
19P1
17P2
22P3
24P4
25P5
28P6
22P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 13113120222023: 15315320232024: 16716720242025: 16916920252026: 1571572026
Since 2022: +26
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll157169167153131
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals42.0%26.7%15.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)34.4%33.7%28.7%28.8%15.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.5%4.1%3.6%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio11.514.414.318.49.911.012.4
Average class sizeAverage class size22.424.123.925.521.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers13.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher11.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.4Scotland 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
Mount Cameron Primary School Gaelic UnitCouncil0 m70HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Hilary's Primary SchoolCouncil360 m154HMIE, no open dataCompare
Blacklaw Primary SchoolCouncil650 m156HMIE, no open dataCompare
Murray Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles199HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hunter Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles204HMIE, no open dataCompare
Maxwellton Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles180HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Louise's Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles189HMIE, no open dataCompare
Heathery Knowe Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles248HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Mount Cameron Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Mount Cameron Primary School have?

157 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
Blacklaw Drive, St Leonard's, EAST KILBRIDE, East Kilbride, G74 2EX
Telephone
01355 232062
Website
www.mountcameron-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
8531625
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from