Greenhills Primary School, East Kilbride
Greenhills Primary School is a primary school for pupils in East Kilbride.
- Attendance
- 90.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Greenhills Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Greenhills 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.
Greenhills Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 199 pupils, an average class size of 14.2 and 9.7 pupils per teacher.
50% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 54% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 90.3% in 2024/25, and 31.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 43% full.
Greenhills Primary School in its own words
In its own words: "Explore the information below to gain an understanding of life in Greenhills."
From the headteacher's welcome: "At Greenhills Primary we aim to create a happy, safe and stimulating learning environment, providing education of the highest quality. Developing the whole child is important to us. We foster academic and aesthetic development, moral and social development and loyalty to both school and community."
Vision and values (school website)Headteacher's welcome (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Greenhills Primary School are South Park Primary School (0.4 miles), Castlefield Primary School (0.5 miles), Heathery Knowe Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Louise's Primary School (0.5 miles).
South Park Primary SchoolCastlefield Primary SchoolHeathery Knowe Primary SchoolSt Louise's Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is East Kilbride Rail Station, about 1.4 miles away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Greenhills Way (opposite), 220 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 Greenhills Primary School in April 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 achievementgood
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 Greenhills Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
2 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Greenhills Primary School
Questions parents ask about Greenhills Primary School
When was Greenhills Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Greenhills Primary School in April 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 good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Greenhills Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Greenhills 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 Greenhills Primary School?
If you live in Greenhills 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 Greenhills Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 2 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 Greenhills Primary School?
Greenhills Primary School is at Cedar Drive, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, G75 9JD.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)