Loch Primary School, RUTHERGLEN
Loch Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Rutherglen.
- Attendance
- 90.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Loch Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Loch 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.
Loch Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 188 pupils, an average class size of 23.5 and 15.5 pupils per teacher.
57% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 49% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
79% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 7% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.7% in 2024/25, and 34.1% 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 52% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Loch Primary School are St Anthony's Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Cathkin Primary School (0.3 miles), Burnside Primary School (0.7 miles) and West Coats Primary School (0.7 miles).
St Anthony's Primary SchoolCathkin Primary SchoolBurnside Primary SchoolWest Coats Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Burnside (Strathclyde) Rail Station, about 950 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lochaber Drive (at), 220 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Loch Primary School are Cathkin High School (0.4 miles), Stonelaw High School (0.7 miles) and Trinity High School (0.7 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 Loch Primary School in November 2022.
- 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
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 8
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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.
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Loch Primary School
Questions parents ask about Loch Primary School
When was Loch Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Loch Primary School in November 2022. 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 Loch Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Loch 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 Loch Primary School?
If you live in Loch 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 Loch Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Loch Primary School?
Loch Primary School is at Lochaber Drive, Springhall, RUTHERGLEN, RUTHERGLEN, G73 5HX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)