Colgrain Primary School, Helensburgh
Colgrain Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Helensburgh.
- Attendance
- 94%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Colgrain Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Colgrain 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.
Colgrain Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 225 pupils, an average class size of 22.5 and 15.8 pupils per teacher.
39% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 37% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 94% in 2024/25, and 16.7% 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 57% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Colgrain Primary School are St Joseph's Primary School (0.4 miles), John Logie Baird Primary School (0.5 miles), Hermitage Primary School (0.8 miles) and Rhu Primary School (3 miles).
St Joseph's Primary SchoolJohn Logie Baird Primary SchoolHermitage Primary SchoolRhu Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Craigendoran Rail Station, about 670 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Williamson Drive (opposite), 120 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 Colgrain Primary School in November 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 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
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
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 Argyll & Bute is 0 (the median across 82 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 Colgrain Primary School
When was Colgrain Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Colgrain Primary School in November 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as very 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 Colgrain Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Colgrain 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 Argyll & Bute. Argyll & Bute publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Colgrain Primary School?
If you live in Colgrain Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Argyll & Bute will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Argyll & Bute - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Colgrain Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 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 Argyll & Bute is 0 (the median across 82 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Colgrain Primary School?
Colgrain Primary School is at Redgauntlet Road, Helensburgh, Helensburgh, G84 7TZ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)