St Patrick's R C Primary School, Lochgelly
St Patrick's R C Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Lochgelly. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 92.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Patrick's R C Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
St Patrick's R C 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 177 pupils, an average class size of 25.3 and 13 pupils per teacher.
19% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 33% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 92.2% in 2024/25, and 28.1% 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 75% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Patrick's R C Primary School are Lochgelly West Primary School (0.4 miles), Lochgelly South Primary School (0.6 miles), Lumphinnans Primary & Community School (1.4 miles) and Benarty Primary School (2 miles).
Lochgelly West Primary SchoolLochgelly South Primary SchoolLumphinnans Primary & Community SchoolBenarty Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Lochgelly Rail Station, about 270 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).
21 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Patricks Primary (adjacent), 20 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 Patrick's R C Primary School in July 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 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 Patrick's R C Primary School
When was St Patrick's R C Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Patrick's R C Primary School in July 2025. 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 satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Patrick's R C Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Patrick's R C 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 Fife. Fife publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Patrick's R C Primary School?
If you live in St Patrick's R C Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Fife will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Fife - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Patrick's R C Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Patrick's R C Primary School?
St Patrick's R C Primary School is at 41 Station Road, Lochgelly, Lochgelly, KY5 9QX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)