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St Monica's Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic178 pupilsCoatbridgeNorth 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 meals50%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support53%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher15.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.4Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll178Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St Monica's Primary School is a council school in Coatbridge for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 178 pupils. About 50 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Craigend Drive, Kirkwood, COATBRIDGE, Coatbridge, ML5 5TJ01236 632080northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5880All 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 Monica'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 1.8 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 roll178Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals50%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support53%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 2 (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.
21P1
22P2
32P3
24P4
23P5
26P6
30P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 23123120222023: 21421420232024: 19719720242025: 19119120252026: 1781782026
Since 2022: -53
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll178191197214231
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals50.0%30.6%30.3%32.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)52.8%58.1%11.7%6.5%11.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.5%2.6%2.5%2.8%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio15.916.517.919.816.213.716.8
Average class sizeAverage class size25.427.321.923.825.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers11.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher15.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.4Scotland 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
Old Monkland Primary SchoolCouncil0 m116HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kirkshaws Primary SchoolCouncil970 m170HMIE, no open dataCompare
Langloan Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles200HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bargeddie Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles109HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Kevin's Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles178HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Timothy's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles439HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Augustine's Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles287HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary School (Coatbridge)Council1.1 miles211HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Monica's Primary School a good school?

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

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

178 pupils aged 4 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
Craigend Drive, Kirkwood, COATBRIDGE, Coatbridge, ML5 5TJ
Telephone
01236 632080
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5880
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 4-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Local authority
North Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8503621
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from