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Woodhead Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational332 pupilsHamiltonSouth 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 meals23%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support40%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.5Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas18%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll332Census September 2025

Woodhead Primary School is a council school in Hamilton for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 332 pupils. About 23 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Woodhead Crescent, Hamilton, Hamilton, ML3 8TB01698 457669blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/woodheadprimaryAll 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 Woodhead 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 South Lanarkshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll332Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support40%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas18%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas15%Scotland 15%
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.
44P1
49P2
46P3
40P4
53P5
49P6
51P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 36236220222023: 35935920232024: 33333320242025: 33733720252026: 3323322026
Since 2022: -30
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll332337333359362
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals23.0%20.2%23.4%19.3%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)39.8%16.0%16.2%15.0%18.8%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language5.1%5.3%6.0%6.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.318.716.718.618.618.017.3
Average class sizeAverage class size25.525.925.627.625.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers20.4full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.3Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.5Scotland 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 Mark's Primary School (Hamilton)Council510 m266HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Peter's Primary SchoolCouncil600 m102HMIE, no open dataCompare
Neilsland Primary SchoolCouncil600 m172HMIE, no open dataCompare
Our Lady and St Anne's Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles161HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Elizabeth's Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles213HMIE, no open dataCompare
Townhill Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles299HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John's Primary School (Hamilton)Council1.1 miles258HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Ninian's Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles227HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Woodhead Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Woodhead Primary School have?

332 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
Woodhead Crescent, Hamilton, Hamilton, ML3 8TB
Telephone
01698 457669
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/woodheadprimary
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
South Lanarkshire
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
8526125
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from