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Glenurquhart Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational162 pupilsHighland
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 meals23%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support52%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher16.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.1Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll162Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Glenurquhart Primary School is a council school in Highland for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 162 pupils. About 23 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

Drumnadrochit, Highland, IV63 6UT01456 450458glenurquhartprimary.org.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 Glenurquhart Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Highland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school (primary Gaelic-medium, primary non-denominational). You can see it on the map below; it covers about 568 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 Highland council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll162Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals23%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support52%Additional support needs
Pupils taught in Gaelic59%
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.
21P1
9P2
24P3
23P4
33P5
30P6
22P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 13013020222023: 14214220232024: 14514520242025: 14714720252026: 1621622026
Since 2022: +32
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll162147145142130
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals23.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)51.9%51.7%49.7%40.1%43.1%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.8%6.2%4.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio16.716.216.715.615.914.412.8
Average class sizeAverage class size23.121.020.720.321.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers9.7full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher16.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.1Scotland 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
Balnain Primary SchoolCouncil3.9 miles21HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Glenurquhart Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Glenurquhart Primary School have?

162 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
Drumnadrochit, Highland, IV63 6UT
Telephone
01456 450458
Website
www.glenurquhartprimary.org.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
Highland
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5144124
Medium of education
English medium (but has Gaelic Medium stream)
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from