St John The Baptist Primary School, Uddingston
St John The Baptist Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Uddingston. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 95.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St John The Baptist Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
St John The Baptist 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.
St John The Baptist Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 331 pupils, an average class size of 27.6 and 17.2 pupils per teacher.
27% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 28% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.1% in 2024/25, and 8.8% 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 90% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St John The Baptist Primary School are Muiredge Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Tannochside Primary School (0.7 miles), St Bride's Primary School (Bothwell) (0.8 miles) and Aitkenhead Primary School (0.9 miles).
Muiredge Primary SchoolTannochside Primary SchoolSt Bride's Primary School (Bothwell)Aitkenhead Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Uddingston Rail Station, about 600 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Spindlehowe Road (before), 370 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St John The Baptist Primary School are Uddingston Grammar School (0.6 miles) and Cardinal Newman High School (1.7 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 John The Baptist Primary School in May 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 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
- 10
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 10 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 5 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 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 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 John The Baptist Primary School
When was St John The Baptist Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St John The Baptist Primary School in May 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St John The Baptist Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St John The Baptist 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 John The Baptist Primary School?
If you live in St John The Baptist 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 John The Baptist Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 10 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 5 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 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 South Lanarkshire is 4 (the median across 150 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St John The Baptist Primary School?
St John The Baptist Primary School is at North British Road, Uddingston, Uddingston, G71 7AG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)