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Castleview Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational454 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 meals44%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support55%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll454Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Castleview Primary School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 454 pupils. About 44 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

2d Greendykes Road, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4DP0131 661 6429castleviewprimary.wordpress.comAll 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 Castleview Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Edinburgh City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 2.4 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 Edinburgh City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll454Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals44%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support55%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English21%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAmong the poorest areasIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 2 (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.
75P1
70P2
67P3
50P4
59P5
78P6
55P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 41141120222023: 44844820232024: 44044020242025: 43943920252026: 4544542026
Since 2022: +43
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll454439440448411
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals44.4%39.8%40.0%37.7%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)54.6%43.7%48.9%61.4%58.2%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language20.5%10.7%13.6%20.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.917.418.117.017.017.315.1
Average class sizeAverage class size25.223.124.424.924.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers26.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.2Scotland 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
Niddrie Mill Primary SchoolCouncil630 m318HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Francis' RC Primary SchoolCouncil630 m311HMIE, no open dataCompare
Prestonfield Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles183HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craigour Park PrimaryCouncil1.1 miles397HMIE, no open dataCompare
Duddingston Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles350HMIE, no open dataCompare
St John Vianney RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles254HMIE, no open dataCompare
Danderhall Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles417HMIE, no open dataCompare
Liberton Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles432HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Castleview Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Castleview Primary School have?

454 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
2d Greendykes Road, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4DP
Telephone
0131 661 6429
Website
castleviewprimary.wordpress.com
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
5520029
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from