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Our Lady's RC Primary School, STIRLING

Primary
Local Authority
Mixed
Roman Catholic

Our Lady's RC Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Stirling. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.

Attendance
92.5%
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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.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 91 pupils, an average class size of 18.2 and 10.6 pupils per teacher.

46% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 25% speak English as an additional language.

67% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 13% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 92.5% in 2024/25, and 31.7% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 70% full.

Compared with nearby schools

The nearest other state primary schools to Our Lady's RC Primary School are Raploch Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Cornton Primary School (0.7 miles), Riverside Primary School (0.7 miles) and Allan's Primary School (0.8 miles).

Raploch Primary SchoolCornton Primary SchoolRiverside Primary SchoolAllan's Primary School

Getting there

The nearest railway station is Stirling Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Raploch Campus (at), 50 metres away.

Secondary schools nearby

The secondary schools closest to Our Lady's RC Primary School are Wallace High School (1.1 miles), Stirling High School (1.7 miles) and St Modan's High School (1.8 miles).

Wallace High SchoolStirling High SchoolSt Modan's High School

Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)

Location

Key Information

Scottish Government
LA:Stirling
Phone:01786 272324
Address:Raploch Community Campus, Drip Road, STIRLING, STIRLING, FK8 1SD
Centre type:Local Authority
Status:open

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Our Lady's RC Primary School's reports on the inspectorate's website.

URN:5725720

At a Glance

No

Boarding

No

Nursery

No

Special Measures

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Getting There

Bus Stops

Raploch Campus (at)
45m · 1 min walk
Hazelbank Gardens (opp and after)
130m · 2 min walk
Woodside Road (opp and after)
175m · 3 min walk
Ivanhoe Place (at)
181m · 3 min walk
Forth Carz (at)
338m · 5 min walk

Safety and surroundings

Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)

Collisions
10
Fatal
0
Serious
2
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, 2 serious and 8 slight.

2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.

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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 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.

Commute and house prices

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Secondary Schools Nearby

Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to

Questions parents ask about Our Lady's RC Primary School

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 Stirling. Stirling 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 Stirling will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Stirling - 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 10 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 8 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 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 Stirling is 1 (the median across 50 schools, same distance and years).

Where is Our Lady's RC Primary School?

Our Lady's RC Primary School is at Raploch Community Campus, Drip Road, STIRLING, STIRLING, FK8 1SD.

Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)

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