Lochside Primary School, Montrose
Lochside Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Montrose.
- Attendance
- 92.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Lochside Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Lochside 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.
Lochside Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 322 pupils, an average class size of 18.9 and 14.5 pupils per teacher.
48% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 24% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 5% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.1% in 2024/25, and 25.1% 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 73% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Lochside Primary School are St Margaret's RC Primary School (0.2 miles), Borrowfield Primary School (0.6 miles), Southesk Primary School (0.8 miles) and Ferryden Primary School (1.4 miles).
St Margaret's RC Primary SchoolBorrowfield Primary SchoolSouthesk Primary SchoolFerryden Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Montrose Rail Station, about 750 metres away (roughly a 9-minute walk).
11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lochside Primary School (at), 100 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 Lochside Primary School in October 2023.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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 Lochside Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
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.
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 Angus is 1 (the median across 59 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 pupils are likely to move to
Lochside Primary School
Questions parents ask about Lochside Primary School
When was Lochside Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Lochside Primary School in October 2023. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Lochside Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Lochside 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 Angus. Angus publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Lochside Primary School?
If you live in Lochside Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Angus will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Angus - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Lochside 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. 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 Angus is 1 (the median across 59 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Lochside Primary School?
Lochside Primary School is at Nursery Road, Montrose, Montrose, DD10 9AN.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)