St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class, GLASGOW
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class is a primary school for pupils in Glasgow. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 94.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class in detail
School in Scotland
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class 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.
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 406 pupils, an average class size of 27.1 and 18.5 pupils per teacher.
63% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 58% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 4% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 21% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.8% in 2024/25, and 13.8% 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 88% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class are St Mirin's Primary School (0.2 miles), Mount Florida Primary School & Nursery Class (0.5 miles), King's Park Primary School (0.7 miles) and Croftfoot Primary School (0.8 miles).
St Mirin's Primary SchoolMount Florida Primary School & Nursery ClassKing's Park Primary SchoolCroftfoot Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Cathcart Rail Station, about 420 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Crompton Avenue (after), 100 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class are King's Park Secondary School (0.3 miles), Holyrood Secondary School (1.1 miles), St Margaret Mary's Secondary School (1.1 miles) and Castlemilk High School (1.4 miles).
King's Park Secondary SchoolHolyrood Secondary SchoolSt Margaret Mary's Secondary SchoolCastlemilk High School
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 Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class in August 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
Yes
Nursery
No
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 11
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 11 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 8 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt.
5 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 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 Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class
When was St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class in August 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; 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 Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class 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 Glasgow City. Glasgow City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class?
If you live in St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Glasgow City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Glasgow City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 11 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 8 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt. 5 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 Glasgow City is 12 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class?
St Fillan's Primary School & Nursery Class is at 20 Crompton Avenue, GLASGOW, GLASGOW, G44 5AF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)