Kirktonholme Primary School, EAST KILBRIDE
Kirktonholme Primary School is a primary school for pupils in East Kilbride.
- Attendance
- 94%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kirktonholme Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Kirktonholme 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.
Kirktonholme Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 339 pupils, an average class size of 28.2 and 19.8 pupils per teacher.
20% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 42% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 94% in 2024/25, and 17.4% 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 good (A); the school was 64% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Kirktonholme Primary School are St Kenneth's Primary School (0.4 miles), East Milton Primary School (0.5 miles), Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary School (0.7 miles) and Canberra Primary School (0.8 miles).
St Kenneth's Primary SchoolEast Milton Primary SchoolOur Lady Of Lourdes Primary SchoolCanberra Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is East Kilbride Rail Station, about 820 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Burncrooks Avenue (near), 120 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Kirktonholme Primary School are Duncanrig Secondary School (0.6 miles), St Andrew's and St Bride's High School (1.1 miles) and Calderglen High School (1.7 miles).
Duncanrig Secondary SchoolSt Andrew's and St Bride's High SchoolCalderglen 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 Kirktonholme Primary School in December 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 achievementvery good
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
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- 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, 1 serious and 1 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
1 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.
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Questions parents ask about Kirktonholme Primary School
When was Kirktonholme Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kirktonholme Primary School in December 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 very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kirktonholme Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kirktonholme 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 Kirktonholme Primary School?
If you live in Kirktonholme 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 Kirktonholme 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, 1 serious and 1 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 1 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 Kirktonholme Primary School?
Kirktonholme Primary School is at Dornoch Place, West Mains, EAST KILBRIDE, EAST KILBRIDE, G74 1DJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)