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St Mary's Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic106 pupilsLargsNorth Ayrshire
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 getting extra support48%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher12.0Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas5%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll106Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St Mary's Primary School is a council school in Largs for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 106 pupils. About 13 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Alexander Avenue, LARGS, Largs, KA30 9DR01475 687687blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/stmaryspslargsAll 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 Mary's Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Ayrshire 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 140 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 Ayrshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll106Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support48%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English7%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas5%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas29%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.
16P1
11P2
10P3
23P4
14P5
17P6
15P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 11011020222023: 11711720232024: 10910920242025: 11411420252026: 1061062026
Since 2022: -4
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll106114109117110
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals13.3%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)48.1%57.0%33.0%47.0%40.0%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.6%12.3%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.013.611.515.811.112.714.2
Average class sizeAverage class size21.222.818.219.518.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.0Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.2Scotland 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
Largs Primary SchoolCouncil0 m398HMIE, no open dataCompare
Fairlie Primary SchoolCouncil2.8 miles122HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cumbrae Primary SchoolCouncil4.3 miles38HMIE, no open dataCompare
Skelmorlie Primary SchoolCouncil5.0 miles78HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Mary's Primary School a good school?

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

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

106 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
Alexander Avenue, LARGS, Largs, KA30 9DR
Telephone
01475 687687
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/stmaryspslargs
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 Ayrshire
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
8213224
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from