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Dalry Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational191 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 meals37%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support84%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.9Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas10%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll191Census September 2025

Dalry Primary School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 191 pupils. About 37 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

4 Cathcart Place, Dalry Road, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH11 2JB0131 337 6086dalryprimaryschool.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 Dalry 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 1.1 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 roll191Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals37%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support84%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English68%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas10%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas12%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
23P1
32P2
36P3
26P4
28P5
19P6
27P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 26326320222023: 26426420232024: 26326320242025: 24424420252026: 1911912026
Since 2022: -72
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll191244263264263
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals37.0%23.6%23.4%30.8%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)84.3%79.9%82.1%85.2%82.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language67.5%61.5%64.3%66.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio18.217.416.418.116.616.817.4
Average class sizeAverage class size23.922.223.926.423.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers10.5full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher18.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.9Scotland 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
Roseburn Primary SchoolCouncil940 m238HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bruntsfield Primary SchoolCouncil970 m584HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tollcross Primary SchoolCouncil980 m207HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craiglockhart Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles275HMIE, no open dataCompare
Balgreen Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles330HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Cuthbert's RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles174HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Peter's RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles267HMIE, no open dataCompare
Flora Stevenson PrimaryCouncil1.1 miles549HMIE, 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?

191 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
4 Cathcart Place, Dalry Road, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH11 2JB
Telephone
0131 337 6086
Website
dalryprimaryschool.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
5523028
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from