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St Gerard's Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic220 pupilsBellshillNorth 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 meals21%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support21%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher17.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.4Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll220Census September 2025

St Gerard's Primary School is a council school in Bellshill for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 220 pupils. About 21 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

Kelvin Road, Bellshill, Bellshill, ML4 1LN01698 274916northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5863All 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 Gerard's Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Lanarkshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school as a Roman Catholic school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 4.5 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 North Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll220Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals21%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support21%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
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.
37P1
24P2
31P3
29P4
32P5
32P6
35P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 21421420222023: 21821820232024: 22222220242025: 22122120252026: 2202202026
Since 2022: +6
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll220221222218214
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals20.9%21.7%13.3%16.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)21.4%23.5%6.8%6.9%9.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.1%3.2%5.0%4.1%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio17.217.516.618.517.318.121.5
Average class sizeAverage class size24.424.624.724.223.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers12.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher17.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.4Scotland 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
Noble Primary SchoolCouncil250 m214HMIE, no open dataCompare
Holy Family Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles174HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mossend Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles304HMIE, no open dataCompare
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles196HMIE, no open dataCompare
Shawhead Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles69HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Bernard's Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles103HMIE, no open dataCompare
Lawmuir Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles250HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Paul II PrimaryCouncil1.4 miles369HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Gerard's Primary School a good school?

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

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

220 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
Kelvin Road, Bellshill, Bellshill, ML4 1LN
Telephone
01698 274916
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5863
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
North Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8510822
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from