John Logie Baird Primary School, Helensburgh
John Logie Baird Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Helensburgh.
- Attendance
- 94.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
John Logie Baird Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
John Logie Baird 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.
John Logie Baird Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 99 pupils, an average class size of 14.1 and 10.1 pupils per teacher.
67% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 61% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 34% speak English as an additional language.
17% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 7% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.8% in 2024/25, and 12.4% 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 25% full.
John Logie Baird Primary School in its own words
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball and multi-sports.
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to John Logie Baird Primary School are St Joseph's Primary School (0.2 miles), Colgrain Primary School (0.5 miles), Hermitage Primary School (0.7 miles) and Rhu Primary School (2.8 miles).
St Joseph's Primary SchoolColgrain Primary SchoolHermitage Primary SchoolRhu Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Helensburgh Upper Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.
16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is John Logie Baird Primary (opposite), 60 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 John Logie Baird Primary School in June 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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 John Logie Baird Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 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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John Logie Baird Primary School
Questions parents ask about John Logie Baird Primary School
When was John Logie Baird Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of John Logie Baird Primary School in June 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for John Logie Baird Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and John Logie Baird 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 John Logie Baird Primary School?
If you live in John Logie Baird 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 John Logie Baird Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 Argyll & Bute is 0 (the median across 82 schools, same distance and years).
Where is John Logie Baird Primary School?
John Logie Baird Primary School is at 1 Winston Road, Helensburgh, Helensburgh, G84 9EP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)