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Wallace Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational361 pupilsRenfrewshire
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 getting extra support45%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas3%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll361Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Wallace Primary School is a council school in Elderslie for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 361 pupils. About 10 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Greenhill Crescent, ELDERSLIE, Elderslie, PA5 9AW0300 300 0194wallace.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 Wallace 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 roll361Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support45%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas3%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas27%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 6 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is bigger than P7, so the roll is likely to grow.
53P1
55P2
61P3
44P4
50P5
58P6
40P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 34734720222023: 32432420232024: 33033020242025: 36036020252026: 3613612026
Since 2022: +14
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll361360330324347
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals13.0%14.8%10.5%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)44.9%40.8%18.5%14.2%16.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.6%1.9%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.419.118.417.117.017.818.4
Average class sizeAverage class size25.825.725.423.124.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers19.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.4Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 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
Thorn Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles134HMIE, no open dataCompare
Heriot Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles199HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Paul's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles159HMIE, no open dataCompare
Auchenlodment Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles207HMIE, no open dataCompare
Brediland Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles189HMIE, no open dataCompare
Woodlands Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles177HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady Of Peace Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles248HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Margaret's Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles165HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Wallace Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Wallace Primary School have?

361 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
Greenhill Crescent, ELDERSLIE, Elderslie, PA5 9AW
Telephone
0300 300 0194
Website
www.wallace.renfrewshire.sch.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 3-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
Renfrewshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8621721
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from