Sacred Heart RC Primary School, Grangemouth
Sacred Heart RC Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Grangemouth. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 91.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Sacred Heart RC Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Sacred Heart 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.
Sacred Heart RC Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 181 pupils, an average class size of 22.6 and 11.2 pupils per teacher.
49% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 37% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.
28% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 6% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91.4% in 2024/25, and 27.2% 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 53% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Sacred Heart RC Primary School are Bowhouse Primary School (0.3 miles), Beancross Primary School (0.4 miles), Moray Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Margaret's Primary School (1.4 miles).
Bowhouse Primary SchoolBeancross Primary SchoolMoray Primary SchoolSt Margaret's Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Polmont Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Sacred Heart Primary School (opposite), 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Sacred Heart RC Primary School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
2 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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 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 Sacred Heart RC Primary School
What is the catchment area for Sacred Heart RC Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Sacred Heart 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 Falkirk. Falkirk publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Sacred Heart RC Primary School?
If you live in Sacred Heart RC Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Falkirk will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Falkirk - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Sacred Heart RC Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 2 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 Falkirk is 4 (the median across 58 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Sacred Heart RC Primary School?
Sacred Heart RC Primary School is at Bowhouse Road, Grangemouth, Grangemouth, FK3 0EU.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)