Hallglen Primary School, FALKIRK
Hallglen Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Falkirk.
- Attendance
- 90.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Hallglen Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Hallglen 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.
Hallglen Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 282 pupils, an average class size of 23.5 and 13.3 pupils per teacher.
52% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 60% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 14% speak English as an additional language.
52% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 23% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.7% in 2024/25, and 31% 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 65% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Hallglen Primary School are Comely Park Primary School (0.7 miles), Shieldhill Primary School (1.1 miles), Bantaskin Primary School (1.1 miles) and St Andrew's RC Primary School (1.1 miles).
Comely Park Primary SchoolShieldhill Primary SchoolBantaskin Primary SchoolSt Andrew's RC Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Falkirk High Rail Station, about 920 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hallglen Primary School (opposite), 60 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Hallglen Primary School are Graeme High School (1.1 miles), Falkirk High School (1.2 miles) and St Mungo's RC High School (1.5 miles).
Graeme High SchoolFalkirk High SchoolSt Mungo's RC High School
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 Hallglen Primary School in January 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 Hallglen Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
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.
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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 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
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Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Hallglen Primary School
Questions parents ask about Hallglen Primary School
When was Hallglen Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Hallglen Primary School in January 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 Hallglen Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Hallglen 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 Falkirk. Falkirk publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Hallglen Primary School?
If you live in Hallglen Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Falkirk will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Falkirk - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Hallglen 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. 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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Hallglen Primary School?
Hallglen Primary School is at New Hallglen Road, Hallglen, FALKIRK, FALKIRK, FK1 2RA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)