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St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell)

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic252 pupilsSouth 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 meals22%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support36%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher15.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll252Census September 2025

St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell) is a council school in Bothwell for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 252 pupils. About 22 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Ailsa Road, Bothwell, Bothwell, G71 8LP01698 853709southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200189/our_primary_schools/1221/st_brides_primary_school_bothwellAll 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 St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell).

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 roll252Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals22%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support36%Additional support needs
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas27%Scotland 15%
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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
37P1
33P2
33P3
40P4
37P5
41P6
31P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 23923920222023: 25325320232024: 24424420242025: 24924920252026: 2522522026
Since 2022: +13
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll252249244253239
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals22.2%15.4%16.4%9.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)36.1%28.1%16.0%20.9%25.1%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language2.8%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio15.817.917.117.319.618.918.4
Average class sizeAverage class size25.224.924.425.326.6

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers16.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher15.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 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
Bothwell Primary SchoolCouncil990 m335HMIE, no open dataCompare
Muiredge Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles320HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John The Baptist Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles331HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Paul II PrimaryCouncil1.1 miles369HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tannochside Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles358HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Joseph's Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles249HMIE, no open dataCompare
David Livingstone Memorial Primary SchoolCouncil1.5 miles249HMIE, no open dataCompare
Aitkenhead Primary SchoolCouncil1.6 miles182HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell) a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell) yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell) have?

252 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
Ailsa Road, Bothwell, Bothwell, G71 8LP
Telephone
01698 853709
Website
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200189/our_primary_schools/1221/st_brides_primary_school_bothwell
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
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8520720
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from