Drymen Primary School, BY GLASGOW
Drymen Primary School is a primary school for pupils in By Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 93.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Drymen Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Drymen 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.
Drymen Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 105 pupils, an average class size of 21 and 13.6 pupils per teacher.
26% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 93.5% in 2024/25, and 17.7% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 80% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Drymen Primary School are Killearn Primary School (3.6 miles) and Gartocharn Primary School (3.6 miles).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Drymen Primary School.
5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ardmore Gardens (after), 240 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 Drymen Primary School in September 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
Keep up with Drymen Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
1 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 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 Drymen Primary School
When was Drymen Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Drymen Primary School in September 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 Drymen Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Drymen 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 Stirling. Stirling publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Drymen Primary School?
If you live in Drymen Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Drymen Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 1 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Drymen Primary School?
Drymen Primary School is at Old Gartmore Road, Drymen, BY GLASGOW, BY GLASGOW, G63 0DY.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)