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Dalry Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational41 pupilsCastle DouglasDumfries & Galloway
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 support54%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.5Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll41Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Dalry Primary School is a council school in Castle Douglas for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 41 pupils.

Kirkland Street, Dalry, CASTLE DOUGLAS, Castle Douglas, DG7 3UX01644 430259dumgal.gov.uk/article/15456All 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 Dalry 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 Dumfries & Galloway council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll41Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support54%Additional support needs
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 5 (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
6P2
7P4
6P6
9P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 545420222023: 595920232024: 434320242025: 454520252026: 41412026
Since 2022: -13
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll4145435954
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)53.7%37.8%32.6%32.2%16.7%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language8.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.716.711.012.011.713.911.3
Average class sizeAverage class size20.522.514.319.718.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers3.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.5Scotland 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
Kells SchoolCouncil2.4 miles28HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Dalry Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Dalry Primary School have?

41 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
Kirkland Street, Dalry, CASTLE DOUGLAS, Castle Douglas, DG7 3UX
Telephone
01644 430259
Website
dumgal.gov.uk/article/15456
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
Dumfries & Galloway
Setting
Remote rural areas
SEED code
1004344
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from