Our Lady's RC Primary School, Perth
Our Lady's RC Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Perth. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 92.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Our Lady's RC Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Our Lady's RC 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 RC Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 182 pupils, an average class size of 22.8 and 16.1 pupils per teacher.
49% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 55% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 30% speak English as an additional language.
25% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 18% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.7% in 2024/25, and 26.7% 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 58% full.
Our Lady's RC Primary School in its own words
The school runs a breakfast club.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Our Lady's RC Primary School are Letham Primary School (0.1 miles), Goodlyburn Primary School (0.5 miles), Tulloch Primary School (0.7 miles) and Oakbank Primary School (0.9 miles).
Letham Primary SchoolGoodlyburn Primary SchoolTulloch Primary SchoolOakbank Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Perth Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.
29 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Our Ladys Primary School (at), 100 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Our Lady's RC Primary School are Perth High School (0.9 miles), Perth Academy (1.1 miles), Perth Grammar School (1.1 miles) and St John's RC Academy (1.3 miles).
Perth High SchoolPerth AcademyPerth Grammar SchoolSt John's RC Academy
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 RC Primary School in June 2026.
- 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 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
Keep up with Our Lady's RC Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 5 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.
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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 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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Our Lady's RC Primary School
Questions parents ask about Our Lady's RC Primary School
When was Our Lady's RC Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Our Lady's RC Primary School in June 2026. 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 very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Our Lady's RC Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Our Lady's RC 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 Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Our Lady's RC Primary School?
If you live in Our Lady's RC Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Our Lady's RC Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 5 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Our Lady's RC Primary School?
Our Lady's RC Primary School is at Garth Avenue, Perth, Perth, PH1 2LG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)