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St Stephen's Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic286 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 meals28%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support44%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher12.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.1Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll286Census September 2025

St Stephen's Primary School is a council school in Coatbridge for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 286 pupils. About 28 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools.

Sikeside Street, Coatbridge, Coatbridge, ML5 4QH01236 794850northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5887All 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 Stephen'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 2.8 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 roll286Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals28%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support44%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
45P1
35P2
39P3
43P4
38P5
47P6
39P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 27727720222023: 28328320232024: 28628620242025: 28828820252026: 2862862026
Since 2022: +9
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll286288286283277
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals27.9%26.8%22.2%16.2%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)44.4%53.1%19.6%24.0%31.0%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.9%3.1%4.5%5.3%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.112.010.810.610.911.612.1
Average class sizeAverage class size19.116.915.915.717.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers23.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.1Scotland 14.1
Average class size19.1Scotland 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
Riverbank Primary SchoolCouncil480 m362HMIE, no open dataCompare
Victoria Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles155HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Patrick's Primary School (Coatbridge)Council0.9 miles264HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rochsolloch Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles266HMIE, no open dataCompare
All Saints Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles202HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Bernard's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles103HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Mary's Primary School (Coatbridge)Council0.9 miles211HMIE, no open dataCompare
Shawhead Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles69HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Stephen's Primary School a good school?

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

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

286 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
Sikeside Street, Coatbridge, Coatbridge, ML5 4QH
Telephone
01236 794850
Website
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5887
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
8503826
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from