Hallside Primary School, CAMBUSLANG
Hallside Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Cambuslang.
- Attendance
- 94.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Hallside Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Hallside 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.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 313 pupils, an average class size of 26.1 and 18.2 pupils per teacher.
16% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 38% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
8% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 20% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.8% in 2024/25, and 13.5% 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 59% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Hallside Primary School are Park View Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Cairns Primary School (0.7 miles), St Cadoc's Primary School (0.7 miles) and St Charles Primary School (0.7 miles).
Park View Primary SchoolCairns Primary SchoolSt Cadoc's Primary SchoolSt Charles Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Newton (S Lanarks) Rail Station, about 570 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Newton Station Road (before), 90 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 Hallside Primary School in November 2025.
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Hallside Primary School
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
- 0
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.
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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Hallside Primary School
Questions parents ask about Hallside Primary School
When was Hallside Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Hallside Primary School in November 2025. 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 Hallside Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Hallside 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 Hallside Primary School?
If you live in Hallside 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 Hallside 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. 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 Hallside Primary School?
Hallside Primary School is at Newton Station Road, Halfway, CAMBUSLANG, CAMBUSLANG, G72 7XN.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)