Mount Cameron Primary School is a primary school in East Kilbride (the largest town in Scotland, according to GRO Scotland's 2004 estimates), South Lanarkshire, in Scotland. It is the only Scottish Gaelic-speaking school in East Kilbride. Its building is to be reconstructed under Scotland's Subordinate Legislation Committee's rebuilding of schools.
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