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Craigiebarns Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational284 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 meals26%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support25%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas36%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll284Census September 2025

Craigiebarns Primary School is a council school in Dundee for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 284 pupils. About 26 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Brington Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD4 7UH01382 438840craigiebarnsprimary.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 Craigiebarns 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 2.8 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 roll284Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals26%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support25%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English3%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas36%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas8%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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
41P1
36P2
38P3
42P4
47P5
34P6
46P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 35035020222023: 33033020232024: 30130120242025: 28428420252026: 2842842026
Since 2022: -66
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll284284301330350
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals26.2%15.9%16.0%24.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)24.6%28.2%31.6%26.7%21.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language2.5%4.9%3.3%3.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.918.019.116.616.616.519.3
Average class sizeAverage class size25.825.825.123.626.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers16.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.9Scotland 14.1
Average class size25.8Scotland 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 Pius' RC Primary SchoolCouncil530 m146HMIE, no open dataCompare
Claypotts Castle Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles375HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rowantree Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles275HMIE, no open dataCompare
Ballumbie Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles386HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Francis RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles296HMIE, no open dataCompare
Longhaugh PrimaryCouncil1.2 miles273HMIE, no open dataCompare
Glebelands Primary SchoolCouncil1.4 miles361HMIE, no open dataCompare
Eastern Primary SchoolCouncil1.5 miles354HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Craigiebarns Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Craigiebarns Primary School have?

284 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
Brington Road, Dundee, Dundee, DD4 7UH
Telephone
01382 438840
Website
craigiebarnsprimary.ea.dundeecity.sch.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
Dundee City
Setting
Large urban areas
SEED code
5324424
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from