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Ancrum Road Primary School

Primary · ages 4-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational304 pupilsDundeeDundee City
School Chooser ScoreNot scoredScotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools, so we can't give its schools a score. Pupil numbers, free school meals, extra support, staffing and class sizes are below.
Pupils registered for free school meals20%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support30%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher19.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.3Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll304Census September 2025

Ancrum Road Primary School is a council school in Dundee for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 304 pupils. About 20 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit fewer than at most schools.

47 Ancrum Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD2 2HX01382 435929ancrumroad.ea.dundeecity.sch.ukAll details

Inspection

Schools in Scotland are inspected by HM Inspectorate of Education. Its reports grade a few areas on a scale from excellent to unsatisfactory, but the grades aren't published as a list we can use.

Results

Scotland publishes no school-level exam results as open data.

Leaver attainment and destinations for individual schools appear only on the Scottish Government's School Information Dashboard, which cannot be reproduced here. Open the dashboard and search for Ancrum Road Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Dundee City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 3.5 square kilometres. If you live inside it, your child has the right to a place here. Families outside it can ask for a place (a placing request), which is only given if there is room.

Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.

There is no entrance test. Every address in Scotland has a catchment primary and secondary school. If you want a different school, you ask the council for a place there (a placing request).

You apply through Dundee City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll304Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals20%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support30%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas46%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas10%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 6 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is bigger than P7, so the roll is likely to grow.
38P1
55P2
44P3
50P4
48P5
40P6
29P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 31031020222023: 33133120232024: 31831820242025: 31531520252026: 3043042026
Since 2022: -6
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll304315318331310
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals20.3%18.6%27.3%28.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)30.3%33.7%32.4%17.5%21.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language5.3%5.7%4.7%3.3%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio19.218.315.916.616.515.317.5
Average class sizeAverage class size25.326.324.525.523.8

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers15.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher19.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.3Scotland 21.0

Nearby schools

The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolCouncil240 m276HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Joseph's RC Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles327HMIE, no open dataCompare
Victoria Park Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles210HMIE, no open dataCompare
Blackness Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles330HMIE, no open dataCompare
Camperdown Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles201HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Clement's RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles197HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Ninian's RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles264HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Peter & Paul RC SchoolCouncil1.1 miles355HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Ancrum Road Primary School a good school?

We don't have enough published data to score Ancrum Road Primary School yet. Scotland doesn't publish results or inspection grades for individual schools.

How many pupils does Ancrum Road Primary School have?

304 pupils aged 4 to 11 were on the roll in September 2025.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
47 Ancrum Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD2 2HX
Telephone
01382 435929
Website
ancrumroad.ea.dundeecity.sch.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 4-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
Dundee City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
5323320
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from