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This section presents contextual information for each of the nine schools participating in the trial. Figure 2 shows the locations of the schools, and Table 1 summarises key context including school roll, location, travel to school data from the Sustrans’ Hands Up Survey (HUS), Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) data, and car/van availability in the local area.

Additional detail is included in Appendix A, including general context, participation in other active travel and road safety schemes, catchment, accident data, and air quality data where available.

Figure 2: School Locations, as described in the text above
Table 1: School Context
School LA Location School Roll HUS % Driven SIMD % Quintile 1 Households % with No Car/Van
St. Anthony's NAC Saltcoats 240 35% 42% 32%
Skelmorlie NAC Skelmorlie 125 28% 0% 13%
Glebe NAC Irvine 350 46% 58% 38%
Whatriggs EAC Kilmarnock 518 17% 43% 37%
Mauchline EAC Mauchline 272 20% 18% 22%
New Cumnock EAC New Cumnock 229 20% 40% 32%
Coylton SAC Coylton 265 24% 0% 11%
Doonfoot SAC Ayr 229 32% 0% 8%
Forehill SAC Ayr 454 32% 0% 22%

This table is based on the latest data available at the time of publication. The ‘SIMD % Quintile 1’ shows the proportion of catchment population within the 20% most deprived datazones based on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.