Kilbowie Primary School, CLYDEBANK
Kilbowie Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Clydebank.
- Attendance
- 92.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kilbowie Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Kilbowie 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.
Kilbowie Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 203 pupils, an average class size of 20.3 and 13.9 pupils per teacher.
40% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 39% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 92.7% in 2024/25, and 24.7% 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 48% full.
Kilbowie Primary School in its own words
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, hockey, basketball and dance.
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Kilbowie Primary School are St Eunan's Primary School (0.3 miles), St Stephen's Primary School (0.5 miles), Goldenhill Primary School (0.8 miles) and Whitecrook Primary School (0.9 miles).
St Eunan's Primary SchoolSt Stephen's Primary SchoolGoldenhill Primary SchoolWhitecrook Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Singer Rail Station, about 490 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Church Street (at), 110 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Kilbowie Primary School are Clydebank High School (0.2 miles) and St Peter the Apostle High School (0.4 miles).
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 Kilbowie Primary School in April 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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 Kilbowie Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 4 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 West Dunbartonshire is 4 (the median across 41 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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Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Kilbowie Primary School
Questions parents ask about Kilbowie Primary School
When was Kilbowie Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kilbowie Primary School in April 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; 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 Kilbowie Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kilbowie 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 West Dunbartonshire. West Dunbartonshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Kilbowie Primary School?
If you live in Kilbowie Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Dunbartonshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Dunbartonshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Kilbowie Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 4 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 West Dunbartonshire is 4 (the median across 41 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Kilbowie Primary School?
Kilbowie Primary School is at West Thomson Street, CLYDEBANK, CLYDEBANK, G81 3EA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)