Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-20025

Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: 18 July 2023
Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 15 August 2023

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many schools were in good or satisfactory condition, from 2016-17 to date, (a) in total and (b) broken down by local authority.

Answer

The total number of publicly funded schools reported as in good or satisfactory condition in the School estates annual survey from 2016 to 2022 is shown in the table below. Figures from the 2023 survey are not yet available.

The number of schools by condition rating for each local authority is reported separately for Primary, Secondary and Special schools in Tables 4.2 to 4.4 in the annual school estate statistics supplementary data tables https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-estate-statistics-2022/documents/ .

Table 1: Schools in good or satisfactory condition by local authority and year

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
All authorities	2,119	2,165	2,166	2,200	2,238	2,239	2,239
Aberdeen City	61	63	61	61	61	60	60
Aberdeenshire	168	169	169	168	169	169	168
Angus	56	58	59	58	59	59	59
Argyll and Bute	91	90	91	92	92	90	88
City of Edinburgh	109	110	99	98	110	115	116
Clackmannanshire	24	24	23	22	24	24	22
Dumfries and Galloway	104	102	101	104	108	106	108
Dundee City	32	33	35	39	39	39	36
East Ayrshire	56	57	55	53	54	53	52
East Dunbartonshire	43	44	44	41	41	41	41
East Lothian	39	31	31	33	33	32	35
East Renfrewshire	25	25	27	28	28	28	28
Falkirk	58	58	59	60	57	57	59
Fife	134	137	143	145	152	152	153
Glasgow City	149	167	172	188	191	191	191
Highland	122	126	118	122	122	125	131
Inverclyde	28	28	28	28	27	28	28
Midlothian	31	31	32	33	34	35	32
Moray	11	16	16	24	24	30	29
Na h-Eileanan Siar	27	23	23	24	24	24	23
North Ayrshire	63	63	61	61	61	61	58
North Lanarkshire	123	131	131	124	129	122	124
Orkney Islands	24	25	24	24	24	24	26
Perth and Kinross	71	70	72	74	74	74	74
Renfrewshire	59	62	61	61	61	56	57
Scottish Borders	44	45	46	47	49	50	50
Shetland Islands	34	32	35	35	35	35	35
South Ayrshire	29	31	32	37	39	42	42
South Lanarkshire	148	148	149	148	149	149	147
Stirling	48	49	47	47	47	46	46
West Dunbartonshire	28	34	38	37	37	38	39
West Lothian	80	83	84	84	84	84	82

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