St Anthony's Primary School, Rutherglen
St Anthony's Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Rutherglen. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 94.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Anthony's Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
St Anthony'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.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 133 pupils, an average class size of 22.2 and 13.6 pupils per teacher.
46% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 56% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 13% speak English as an additional language.
54% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 11% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.4% in 2024/25, and 16.4% 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 good (A); the school was 45% full.
St Anthony's Primary School in its own words
The school runs after-school care.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Anthony's Primary School are Loch Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Cathkin Primary School (0.3 miles), Burnside Primary School (0.7 miles) and West Coats Primary School (0.7 miles).
Loch Primary SchoolCathkin Primary SchoolBurnside Primary SchoolWest Coats Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Burnside (Strathclyde) Rail Station, about 950 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lochaber Drive (at), 220 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St Anthony's Primary School are Cathkin High School (0.4 miles), Stonelaw High School (0.7 miles) and Trinity High School (0.7 miles).
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 St Anthony's Primary School in February 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 8
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 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 St Anthony's Primary School
When was St Anthony's Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Anthony's Primary School in February 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Anthony's Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Anthony'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 South Lanarkshire. South Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Anthony's Primary School?
If you live in St Anthony's Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and South Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to South Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Anthony's Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Anthony's Primary School?
St Anthony's Primary School is at Lochaber Drive, Rutherglen, Rutherglen, G73 5HX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)