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St Ninian's Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic246 pupilsLivingstonWest Lothian
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 meals22%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support24%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.4Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas16%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll246Census September 2025

St Ninian's Primary School is a council school in Livingston for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 246 pupils. About 22 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Douglas Rise, Dedridge, LIVINGSTON, Livingston, EH54 6JH01506 414612stniniansprimary.westlothian.org.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 Ninian'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 West Lothian council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll246Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals22%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support24%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English12%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas16%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas26%Scotland 15%
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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
34P1
21P2
25P3
43P4
44P5
43P6
36P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 24124120222023: 25625620232024: 24524520242025: 24524520252026: 2462462026
Since 2022: +5
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll246245245256241
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals21.5%17.1%11.1%11.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)23.6%31.4%38.4%36.7%39.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language12.2%9.0%20.4%18.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.717.015.417.715.816.517.7
Average class sizeAverage class size22.424.522.323.324.1

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers14.7full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.4Scotland 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
Dedridge Primary SchoolCouncil150 m142HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bankton Primary SchoolCouncil520 m323HMIE, no open dataCompare
Williamston Primary SchoolCouncil870 m409HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mid Calder Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles194HMIE, no open dataCompare
Howden St Andrew's Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles267HMIE, no open dataCompare
Toronto Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles239HMIE, no open dataCompare
Riverside Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles187HMIE, no open dataCompare
Letham Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles148HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Ninian's Primary School a good school?

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

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

246 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
Douglas Rise, Dedridge, LIVINGSTON, Livingston, EH54 6JH
Telephone
01506 414612
Website
www.stniniansprimary.westlothian.org.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
West Lothian
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
5511224
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from