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Hill of Fearn Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational33 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 getting extra support27%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher8.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size16.5Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll33Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Hill of Fearn Primary School is a council school in Fearn for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 33 pupils.

Rhynie Road, Fearn, Fearn, IV20 1SU01862 832257hofprimaryblog.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 Hill of Fearn Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Highland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 24 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 roll33Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support27%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English0%First language is not English
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
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
5P1
5P2
5P4
8P5
6P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 292920222023: 393920232024: 393920242025: 414120252026: 33332026
Since 2022: +4
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll3341393929
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)27.3%29.3%46.2%46.2%37.9%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio8.714.614.415.08.57.67.6
Average class sizeAverage class size16.520.519.519.59.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers3.8full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher8.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size16.5Scotland 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
Hilton of Cadboll Primary SchoolCouncil2.5 miles94HMIE, no open dataCompare
Inver Primary SchoolCouncil3.3 miles19HMIE, no open dataCompare
Knockbreck Primary School - TainCouncil4.0 miles148HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craighill Primary SchoolCouncil4.4 miles195HMIE, no open dataCompare
Milton Primary SchoolCouncil4.7 miles56HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Hill of Fearn Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Hill of Fearn Primary School have?

33 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
Rhynie Road, Fearn, Fearn, IV20 1SU
Telephone
01862 832257
Website
hofprimaryblog.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
Highland
Setting
Remote rural areas
SEED code
5115221
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from