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St Paul's Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic159 pupilsPaisleyRenfrewshire
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 meals30%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support57%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher10.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size17.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll159Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St Paul's Primary School is a council school in Paisley for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 159 pupils. About 30 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools.

Morar Drive, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA2 9FA0300 300 0187st-pauls.renfrewshire.sch.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 Paul'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 Renfrewshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll159Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals30%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support57%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English16%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 1 (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.
20P1
22P2
25P3
16P4
23P5
25P6
28P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 20120120222023: 19319320232024: 18018020242025: 16716720252026: 1591592026
Since 2022: -42
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll159167180193201
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals30.2%29.3%28.8%29.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)56.6%39.5%52.2%30.1%31.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language15.7%7.8%10.0%11.9%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio10.110.411.010.711.29.610.1
Average class sizeAverage class size17.716.718.019.318.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers15.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher10.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size17.7Scotland 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
Brediland Primary SchoolCouncil120 m189HMIE, no open dataCompare
Heriot Primary SchoolCouncil640 m199HMIE, no open dataCompare
Wallace Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles361HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles290HMIE, no open dataCompare
West Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles389HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Peter's Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles214HMIE, no open dataCompare
Langcraigs Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles267HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bushes Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles302HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Paul's Primary School a good school?

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

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

159 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
Morar Drive, PAISLEY, Paisley, PA2 9FA
Telephone
0300 300 0187
Website
www.st-pauls.renfrewshire.sch.uk
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
Renfrewshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8626227
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from