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Wishaw Academy Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational326 pupilsWishawNorth 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 meals41%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support20%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher17.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.1Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll326Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Wishaw Academy Primary School is a council school in Wishaw for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 326 pupils. About 41 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Lochpark, Wishaw, Wishaw, ML2 7EB01698 352579wishaw.n-lanark.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 Wishaw Academy Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

North Lanarkshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 5.5 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 roll326Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals41%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support20%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English3%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
43P1
44P2
34P3
57P4
47P5
54P6
47P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 33533520222023: 33333320232024: 31931920242025: 31931920252026: 3263262026
Since 2022: -9
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll326319319333335
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals40.6%32.6%22.2%29.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)19.9%18.2%5.0%9.9%13.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.1%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio17.317.016.317.517.716.517.4
Average class sizeAverage class size25.124.524.523.822.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers18.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher17.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.1Scotland 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
St Ignatius' Primary SchoolCouncil0 m183HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cambusnethan Primary SchoolCouncil920 m137HMIE, no open dataCompare
Thornlie Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles147HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Thomas' Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles205HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Aidan's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles281HMIE, no open dataCompare
Calderbridge Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles257HMIE, no open dataCompare
Berryhill Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles218HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Brigid's Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles169HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Wishaw Academy Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Wishaw Academy Primary School have?

326 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
Lochpark, Wishaw, Wishaw, ML2 7EB
Telephone
01698 352579
Website
www.wishaw.n-lanark.sch.uk
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 Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8515220
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from