St Barbara's Primary School, GLASGOW
St Barbara's Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Glasgow. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 94.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Barbara's Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
St Barbara'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 220 pupils, an average class size of 24.4 and 16.4 pupils per teacher.
24% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
6% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 25% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.4% in 2024/25, and 14.3% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 64% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Barbara's Primary School are Chryston Primary School (0.4 miles), Glenmanor Primary School (1.1 miles), Gartcosh Primary School (1.2 miles) and St Michael's Primary School (1.4 miles).
Chryston Primary SchoolGlenmanor Primary SchoolGartcosh Primary SchoolSt Michael's Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Gartcosh Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Potassels Road (before), 150 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 St Barbara's Primary School in September 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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
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
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 2 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise.
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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 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 Barbara's Primary School
When was St Barbara's Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Barbara's Primary School in September 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Barbara's Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Barbara'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 North Lanarkshire. North Lanarkshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Barbara's Primary School?
If you live in St Barbara's Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and North Lanarkshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to North Lanarkshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Barbara's Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 2 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise. 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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Barbara's Primary School?
St Barbara's Primary School is at Elmira Road, Muirhead, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G69 9EJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)