Canberra Primary School, East Kilbride
Canberra Primary School is a primary school for pupils in East Kilbride.
- Attendance
- 93.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Canberra Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Canberra Primary School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
Canberra Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 192 pupils, an average class size of 24 and 16.7 pupils per teacher.
45% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 45% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 6% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 9% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.1% in 2024/25, and 18.2% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 92% full.
Canberra Primary School in its own words
The school runs a breakfast club from 8:15am.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Canberra Primary School are East Milton Primary School (0.3 miles), South Park Primary School (0.5 miles), Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary School (0.5 miles) and Castlefield Primary School (0.7 miles).
East Milton Primary SchoolSouth Park Primary SchoolOur Lady Of Lourdes Primary SchoolCastlefield Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Hairmyres Rail Station, about 1160 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Westwood Square (at), 110 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Canberra Primary School in June 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Questions parents ask about Canberra Primary School
When was Canberra Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Canberra Primary School in June 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Canberra Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Canberra Primary School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to South Lanarkshire. South Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Canberra Primary School?
If you live in Canberra Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and South Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to South Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Canberra Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Canberra Primary School?
Canberra Primary School is at Belmont Drive, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, G75 8HD.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)