Tannochside Primary School, UDDINGSTON
Tannochside Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Uddingston.
- Attendance
- 90.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Tannochside Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Tannochside 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.
Tannochside Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 358 pupils, an average class size of 25.6 and 17.7 pupils per teacher.
26% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 23% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 1% speak English as an additional language.
53% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 14% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.1% in 2024/25, and 33.1% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 68% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Tannochside Primary School are St John Paul II Primary (0.5 miles), St John The Baptist Primary School (0.7 miles), Aitkenhead Primary School (0.7 miles) and Muiredge Primary School (0.7 miles).
St John Paul II PrimarySt John The Baptist Primary SchoolAitkenhead Primary SchoolMuiredge Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Uddingston Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Burnhead Street (at), 120 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Tannochside Primary School are Uddingston Grammar School (1.1 miles) and Cardinal Newman High School (1.4 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 Tannochside Primary School in September 2026.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 4
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight.
4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 1 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 Tannochside Primary School
When was Tannochside Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Tannochside Primary School in September 2026. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Tannochside Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Tannochside 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 Tannochside Primary School?
If you live in Tannochside 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 Tannochside Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. 4 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 1 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 Tannochside Primary School?
Tannochside Primary School is at 111 Douglas Street, Tannochside, UDDINGSTON, UDDINGSTON, G71 5EF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)