Whitelees Primary School, Cumbernauld
Whitelees Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Cumbernauld.
- Attendance
- 93.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Whitelees Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Whitelees 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.
Whitelees Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 240 pupils, an average class size of 24 and 16.8 pupils per teacher.
23% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals and 22% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
6% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 19% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.4% in 2024/25, and 21.5% 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 78% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Whitelees Primary School are St Lucy's Primary School (0.6 miles), Abronhill Primary School (1.3 miles), Bankier Primary School (1.5 miles) and Kildrum Primary School (1.7 miles).
St Lucy's Primary SchoolAbronhill Primary SchoolBankier Primary SchoolKildrum Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Cumbernauld Rail Station, about 2.3 miles away in a straight line.
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Birkenburn Road (before), 140 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 Whitelees Primary School in March 2026.
- 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
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Whitelees Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
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 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 Whitelees Primary School
When was Whitelees Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Whitelees Primary School in March 2026. 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 Whitelees Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Whitelees 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 Whitelees Primary School?
If you live in Whitelees 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 Whitelees 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 North Lanarkshire is 5 (the median across 153 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Whitelees Primary School?
Whitelees Primary School is at Whitelees Road, Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld, G67 3NJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)