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St Mary's Primary School (Lanark)

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic138 pupilsLanarkSouth 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 meals39%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support41%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas25%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll138Census September 2025

St Mary's Primary School (Lanark) is a council school in Lanark for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 138 pupils. About 38 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Skye Walk, LANARK, Lanark, ML11 7NT01555 663480blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/stmaryslanarkAll 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 (Lanark).

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 roll138Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals39%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support41%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English9%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas25%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 3 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
18P1
20P2
20P3
20P4
21P5
18P6
21P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 13213220222023: 12512520232024: 12512520242025: 13513520252026: 1381382026
Since 2022: +6
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll138135125125132
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals38.5%30.0%24.2%21.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)40.6%38.5%42.4%44.0%30.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language9.4%11.1%10.4%8.8%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.615.714.015.813.216.316.7
Average class sizeAverage class size23.022.520.820.822.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.6Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 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
Robert Owen Memorial Primary SchoolCouncil340 m239HMIE, no open dataCompare
Lanark Primary SchoolCouncil700 m244HMIE, no open dataCompare
New Lanark Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles22HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kirkfieldbank Primary SchoolCouncil2.1 miles34HMIE, no open dataCompare
Carstairs Primary SchoolCouncil3.4 miles93HMIE, no open dataCompare
Carmichael Primary SchoolCouncil3.8 miles34HMIE, no open dataCompare
Braidwood Primary SchoolCouncil3.9 miles131HMIE, no open dataCompare
Underbank Primary SchoolCouncil4.0 miles105HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Mary's Primary School (Lanark) a good school?

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

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

138 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
Skye Walk, LANARK, Lanark, ML11 7NT
Telephone
01555 663480
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/stmaryslanark
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
Accessible small towns
SEED code
8550220
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from