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Kirkhill Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational129 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 meals26%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support31%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher17.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.5Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll129Census September 2025

Kirkhill Primary School is a council school in Kirkhill for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 129 pupils. About 26 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

St Mary's Road, Kirkhill, INVERNESS-SHIRE, Kirkhill, IV5 7NX01463 831543kirkhillprimary.co.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 Kirkhill 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 56 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 roll129Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals26%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support31%Additional support needs
Pupils taught in Gaelic53%
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
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
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
20P1
12P2
15P3
30P4
13P5
14P6
25P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 14114120222023: 14314320232024: 14414420242025: 13513520252026: 1291292026
Since 2022: -12
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll129135144143141
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals25.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)31.0%34.8%40.3%37.8%45.4%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio17.719.316.416.617.218.116.7
Average class sizeAverage class size21.522.520.620.423.5

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers7.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher17.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size21.5Scotland 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
Beauly Primary SchoolCouncil1.9 miles113HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tarradale Primary SchoolCouncil3.1 miles245HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tomnacross Primary SchoolCouncil3.7 miles108HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mulbuie Primary SchoolCouncil4.2 miles46HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Kirkhill Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Kirkhill Primary School have?

129 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
St Mary's Road, Kirkhill, INVERNESS-SHIRE, Kirkhill, IV5 7NX
Telephone
01463 831543
Website
kirkhillprimary.co.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
5142326
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from