School Chooser

Whitehirst Park Primary

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational257 pupilsKilwinningNorth Ayrshire
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 meals21%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support31%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.4Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas15%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll257Census September 2025

Whitehirst Park Primary is a council school in Kilwinning for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 257 pupils. About 21 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

Stevenston Road, KILWINNING, Kilwinning, KA13 6NQ01294 554538blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/whitehirstparkprimaryAll 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 Whitehirst Park Primary.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Ayrshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 6.7 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 Ayrshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll257Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals21%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support31%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English0%First language is not English
Pupils taught in Gaelic7%
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas15%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas19%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 5 (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.
25P1
29P2
37P3
35P4
44P5
40P6
47P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 26826820222023: 27127120232024: 27327320242025: 27427420252026: 2572572026
Since 2022: -11
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll257274273271268
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals20.7%11.4%9.9%7.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)30.7%33.9%29.3%26.9%17.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.914.816.515.514.617.919.9
Average class sizeAverage class size21.421.121.020.822.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers17.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.4Scotland 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
St Luke's Primary SchoolCouncil390 m197HMIE, no open dataCompare
Pennyburn Primary SchoolCouncil720 m155HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Winning's Primary SchoolCouncil850 m107HMIE, no open dataCompare
Abbey Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles213HMIE, no open dataCompare
Blacklands Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles111HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hayocks Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles165HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John's Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles95HMIE, no open dataCompare
Corsehill Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles197HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Whitehirst Park Primary a good school?

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

How many pupils does Whitehirst Park Primary have?

257 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
Stevenston Road, KILWINNING, Kilwinning, KA13 6NQ
Telephone
01294 554538
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/whitehirstparkprimary
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 4-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
North Ayrshire
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
8216924
Medium of education
English medium (but has Gaelic Medium stream)
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from