Renfrewshire Council

School information

The Head Teacher at Paisley Grammar School is Janice Levens. The link education manager is Laura McAllister.

The primary schools associated with Paisley Grammar School are:

• Gallowhill Primary School
• Mossvale Primary School
• Ralston Primary School
• Todholm Primary School
• Williamsburgh Primary School

New Paisley Grammar School

The new Paisley Grammar School Community Campus will replace the current Paisley Grammar School.

It is planned to open for the start of the school term in August 2026. The catchment area will stay the same, including the five associated primary schools listed above.

Facilities at the new school

New Paisley Grammar School Community Campus The new school will be a modern energy-efficient building, which will:

• include outdoor facilities not possible on the current Paisley Grammar site, including two full-size sports pitches (one 3G and one grass), plus outdoor learning and social spaces
• offer modern facilities for practical subjects including a 300-seat theatre, fitness suite, dance studio, makers space, teaching kitchens, drama studio, and music suites
• support a range of ways to learn and teach, with open spaces for group work as well as traditional classrooms
• have facilities for use by the wider community outwith the swchool day, such as meeting rooms and flexible learning space

It will also be fully accessible to pupils with mobility issues or additional support needs. And the location will allow a closer partnership between the school and the nearby West College Scotland.

Location, road safety and school transport

The new school is being built on a vacant site off Renfrew Road.

It will benefit from the wider development to improve transport links in the north of Paisley, which will create safer access to the new school.

This will include a new bridge over the White Cart River and a new east-west road linking the bridge with Renfrew Road. The entrance to the new school will be from this new road.

There will also be new safe walking and cycling routes to the school including an underpass underneath Renfrew Road linking to Gallowhill and the east of the town.

Pupils living more than two miles away from the school will get school transport under our home-to-school transport arrangements.

Updates on the progress of the new school

We ran a consultation and series of public meetings in 2020 to get views on the proposal to move the school, which showed overall support.

We then appointed a design team, who produced detailed designs for the new school, based on the results of a series of workshops with pupils, staff and parents.

Construction started on the new school in summer 2024. We will keep you up to date here on progress and on arrangements for the new school opening.

The following progress updates have been issued to parents and carers:

• December 2024 - construction progress update and architect images of inside new school