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Canaan Lane Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational186 pupilsEdinburghEdinburgh 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 meals0%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support30%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll186Census September 2025

Canaan Lane Primary School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 186 pupils. About 0 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

35B Canaan Lane, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH10 4SG0131 529 2191unknown.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 Canaan Lane Primary School.

Getting a place

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 Edinburgh City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll186Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals0%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support30%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English14%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas80%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAmong the wealthiest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 9 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P4 are about the same size.
42P1
55P2
46P3
43P4
Trend
Pupils on roll
2023 to 2026
2023: 404020232024: 888820242025: 14514520252026: 1861862026
Since 2023: +146
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/23
Pupils on roll1861458840
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)29.6%0.0%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language14.0%13.1%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.217.716.912.5
Average class sizeAverage class size23.224.222.020.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers10.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.2Scotland 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 Peter's RC Primary SchoolCouncil290 m267HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bruntsfield Primary SchoolCouncil960 m584HMIE, no open dataCompare
South Morningside Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles504HMIE, no open dataCompare
Sciennes Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles542HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tollcross Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles207HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craiglockhart Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles275HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dalry Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles191HMIE, no open dataCompare
Preston Street Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles255HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Canaan Lane Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Canaan Lane Primary School have?

186 pupils aged 3 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
35B Canaan Lane, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH10 4SG
Telephone
0131 529 2191
Website
www.unknown.uk
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 3-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Non-denominational
Local authority
Edinburgh City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
1005766
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from