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Our Lady of Loretto Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic248 pupilsClydebankWest Dunbartonshire
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 meals45%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support56%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll248Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Our Lady of Loretto Primary School is a council school in Clydebank for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 248 pupils. About 45 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Castle Street, Dalmuir, CLYDEBANK, Clydebank, G81 4HN0141 533 3032sites.google.com/ourcloud.buzz/help-centre/homeAll 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 Our Lady of Loretto 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 West Dunbartonshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll248Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals45%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support56%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English19%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 1 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
35P1
34P2
37P3
44P4
31P5
30P6
37P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 20320320222023: 21921920232024: 21721720242025: 22222220252026: 2482482026
Since 2022: +45
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll248222217219203
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals44.8%40.7%33.9%35.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)55.6%47.7%51.6%50.2%48.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language18.5%14.4%11.5%8.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.115.716.117.514.516.213.9
Average class sizeAverage class size24.822.224.124.322.6

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers13.7full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.8Scotland 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
Clydemuir Primary SchoolCouncil250 m127HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Stephen's Primary SchoolCouncil850 m232HMIE, no open dataCompare
Carleith Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles62HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rashielea Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles140HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kilbowie Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles203HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary School (Duntocher)Council1.0 miles274HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Anne's Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles131HMIE, no open dataCompare
Barsail Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles336HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Our Lady of Loretto Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Our Lady of Loretto Primary School have?

248 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
Castle Street, Dalmuir, CLYDEBANK, Clydebank, G81 4HN
Telephone
0141 533 3032
Website
sites.google.com/ourcloud.buzz/help-centre/home
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 3-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Local authority
West Dunbartonshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8313423
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from