Our Lady's Primary School, WEST LOTHIAN
Our Lady's Primary School is a primary school for pupils in West Lothian. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 92.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Our Lady's Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Our Lady's 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.
Our Lady's Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 47 pupils, an average class size of 15.7 and 9.4 pupils per teacher.
62% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 17% speak English as an additional language.
34% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.3% in 2024/25, and 29.3% 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 43% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Our Lady's Primary School are Stoneyburn Primary School (0.3 miles), Addiewell Primary School (0.6 miles), St Thomas' Primary School (0.6 miles) and Woodmuir Primary School (1.4 miles).
Stoneyburn Primary SchoolAddiewell Primary SchoolSt Thomas' Primary SchoolWoodmuir Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Addiewell Rail Station, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Post Office (after), 30 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 Our Lady's Primary School in January 2023.
- 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
Keep up with Our Lady's Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 2
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.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot.
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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 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 Our Lady's Primary School
When was Our Lady's Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Our Lady's Primary School in January 2023. 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 Our Lady's Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Our Lady's 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 Lothian. West Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Our Lady's Primary School?
If you live in Our Lady's Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Our Lady's 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. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot. 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Our Lady's Primary School?
Our Lady's Primary School is at 79 Main Street, Stoneyburn, WEST LOTHIAN, WEST LOTHIAN, EH47 8BY.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)