St Bernadette's Primary, Motherwell
St Bernadette's Primary is a primary school for pupils in Motherwell. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 93.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Bernadette's Primary in detail
School in Scotland
St Bernadette's Primary 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 164 pupils, an average class size of 23.4 and 13.4 pupils per teacher.
35% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 38% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 16% speak English as an additional language.
63% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 11% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.1% in 2024/25, and 23.9% 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 poor (C); the school was 61% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Bernadette's Primary are Logans Primary School (0.2 miles), Ladywell Primary School (0.6 miles), Muir Street Primary School (0.8 miles) and Cathedral Primary School (0.9 miles).
Logans Primary SchoolLadywell Primary SchoolMuir Street Primary SchoolCathedral Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Motherwell Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Salisbury Crescent (opposite), 220 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St Bernadette's Primary are Braidhurst High School (0.7 miles), Dalziel High School (0.9 miles), Cardinal Newman High School (1.6 miles) and Bellshill Academy (1.6 miles).
Braidhurst High SchoolDalziel High SchoolCardinal Newman High SchoolBellshill 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 St Bernadette's Primary in February 2025.
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
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, 2 serious and 4 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
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 Bernadette's Primary
When was St Bernadette's Primary last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Bernadette's Primary in February 2025. 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 St Bernadette's Primary?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Bernadette's Primary 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 Bernadette's Primary?
If you live in St Bernadette's Primary'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 Bernadette's Primary?
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, 2 serious and 4 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 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 Bernadette's Primary?
St Bernadette's Primary is at Vickers Street, Motherwell, Motherwell, ML1 3RE.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)