At the meeting of Children, Families and Communities Committee on 23rd June 2025, Committee approved the following proposal to:
Close St Pius X RC Primary School and Nursery at the end of academic session 2025/26 and rezone the catchment area of St Francis RC Primary School to include the existing St Pius X RC Primary School catchment area.
It was agreed by Committee that the Council should now proceed with the proposal.
The Committee also agreed to an amendment to recommendation 2.1 (iii) (a) of the Report to Committee and approved that:
Free transport will be provided for all children who reside in the St Pius catchment area who choose to attend St Francis. From the 2032/33 academic session this will be reviewed annually, and committee approval will be required if the free transport is to be stopped.
The Council must now wait a further 8-week period before implementation of the proposal; within this timeframe a call-in notice may be issued in respect to the proposal by Scottish Ministers.
This notice is now to advise that Scottish Ministers have been informed of Dundee City Council’s decision to implement the closure proposal. Under the terms of the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010 ('the 2010 Act'), a period of 3 weeks begins from the date of the decision by Dundee City Council to implement the closure proposal with the revised implementation date during which time representations may be made to the Scottish Ministers.
Relevant representations will be taken account of by the Scottish Ministers in considering whether to issue a call-in notice. This 3-week period for submitting representations extends to and includes Sunday 13th July 2025 on which date the 3-week period ends.
If you send in your representation, you may have included personal information about yourself such as your email address, postal address and other sensitive personal data in support of your representation.
Representations can be emailed to:
schoolclosure@gov.scot
or in writing:
School Infrastructure Unit
Scottish Government
2-A (S) Victoria Quay
Edinburgh EH6 6QQ
Background
Dundee City Council undertook a consultation on the proposed closure of St Pius X Roman Catholic Primary School and Nursery.
As part of this process, the Council sought views on the potential expansion of the catchment area of St Francis RC Primary School to accommodate the existing St Pius X RC Primary School catchment area.
On 2nd December 2024, The Children, Families and Communities Committee approved the proposed consultation which could see the permanent closure of St Pius X RC Primary and Nursery at the end of the academic session 2025/26.
The report to the meeting and meeting minutes detail the proposals.
This consultation was undertaken in accordance with the schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010, which requires a formal consultation to take place whenever there are changes to the school estate.
The consultation period ran for 30 school days from Monday 6th January, 2025 to Wednesday 19th February, 2025.
The following link will direct you to details of the proposal:
Dundee City Council invited citizens to consider the proposal and to express their views at two public meetings, combined with drop-in sessions where members of the public could find out more details about the proposals and express their opinions. Written feedback was also welcomed.
Consultation Report
The final consultation report, including a report from Education Scotland, can be downloaded from this website.
Recommendations from the report were taken to the Children, Families and Communities Committee on 23rd June, 2025.