Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class, GLASGOW
Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class is a primary school for pupils in Glasgow.
- Attendance
- 93.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class in detail
School in Scotland
Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class 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.
Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 224 pupils, an average class size of 24.9 and 16.2 pupils per teacher.
64% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 34% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 16% speak English as an additional language.
17% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 8% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.2% in 2024/25, and 24.4% 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 84% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class are St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class (0.5 miles), Battlefield Primary School (0.5 miles), St Mirin's Primary School (0.6 miles) and King's Park Primary School (0.8 miles).
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery ClassBattlefield Primary SchoolSt Mirin's Primary SchoolKing's Park Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Mount Florida Rail Station, about 370 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).
19 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Cathkinview Road (before), 70 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class are Holyrood Secondary School (0.7 miles), King's Park Secondary School (0.8 miles), Shawlands Academy (1.1 miles) and St Margaret Mary's Secondary School (1.6 miles).
Holyrood Secondary SchoolKing's Park Secondary SchoolShawlands AcademySt Margaret Mary's Secondary 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 Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class in August 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 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
Keep up with Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 10
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 10 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 6 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt.
3 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 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 Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class
When was Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class in August 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as very 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 Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class 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 Glasgow City. Glasgow City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class?
If you live in Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Glasgow City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Glasgow City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 10 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 6 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt. 3 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class?
Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class is at 1127 Cathcart Road, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G42 9HF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)