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St Cuthbert's Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic224 pupilsHamiltonSouth 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 meals36%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support42%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher7.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.9Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas50%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll224Census September 2025

St Cuthbert's Primary School is a council school in Hamilton for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 224 pupils. About 36 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Greenfield Road, Burnbank, HAMILTON, Hamilton, ML3 0RG01698 282175st-cuthberts-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 St Cuthbert's 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 roll224Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals36%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support42%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English6%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas50%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas7%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (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.
17P1
32P2
32P3
32P4
41P5
38P6
32P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 23723720222023: 23623620232024: 25425420242025: 24924920252026: 2242242026
Since 2022: -13
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll224249254236237
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals35.7%28.8%19.2%18.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)42.0%33.3%31.1%37.3%27.8%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.3%12.4%9.4%5.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio7.68.29.98.18.38.49.1
Average class sizeAverage class size24.924.925.426.226.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers29.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher7.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.9Scotland 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
Glenlee Primary SchoolCouncil210 m294HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Ninian's Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles227HMIE, no open dataCompare
Udston Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles316HMIE, no open dataCompare
Beckford Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles131HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Paul's Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles145HMIE, no open dataCompare
Auchinraith Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles279HMIE, no open dataCompare
Townhill Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles299HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Joseph's Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles249HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Cuthbert's Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does St Cuthbert's Primary School have?

224 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
Greenfield Road, Burnbank, HAMILTON, Hamilton, ML3 0RG
Telephone
01698 282175
Website
www.st-cuthberts-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
Roman Catholic
Local authority
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8521727
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from