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Crail Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational71 pupilsAnstrutherFife
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 getting extra support16%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll71Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Crail Primary School is a council school in Anstruther for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 71 pupils. About 29 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools.

Backdykes, Crail, ANSTRUTHER, Anstruther, KY10 3UW01334 659457fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&FacId=BF0A0FF3-9E47-4A46-9F71AD19DC311014All 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 Crail 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 Fife council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll71Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support16%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English0%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 8 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
6P1
14P2
8P3
10P4
10P5
13P6
10P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 777720222023: 888820232024: 747420242025: 898920252026: 71712026
Since 2022: -6
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll7189748877
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals29.6%28.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)15.5%22.5%24.3%25.0%32.5%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.213.39.911.612.210.012.3
Average class sizeAverage class size23.722.318.522.019.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers3.9full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.7Scotland 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
Kingsbarns Primary SchoolCouncil2.8 miles37HMIE, no open dataCompare
Anstruther Primary SchoolCouncil3.8 miles257HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Crail Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Crail Primary School have?

71 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
Backdykes, Crail, ANSTRUTHER, Anstruther, KY10 3UW
Telephone
01334 659457
Website
www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&FacId=BF0A0FF3-9E47-4A46-9F71AD19DC311014
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
Fife
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5421322
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from