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Lilliesleaf Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational52 pupilsScottish Borders
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 support31%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher12.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size17.3Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll52Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Lilliesleaf Primary School is a council school in Melrose for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 52 pupils. About 0 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Lilliesleaf, Melrose, Melrose, TD6 9HX01835 870251lilliesleafprimaryschool.weebly.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 Lilliesleaf 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 Scottish Borders council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll52Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support31%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English0%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 8 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
11P1
8P3
9P5
13P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 575720222023: 515120232024: 505020242025: 474720252026: 52522026
Since 2022: -5
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll5247505157
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals0.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)30.8%29.8%36.0%29.4%28.1%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio12.711.211.912.813.614.314.0
Average class sizeAverage class size17.315.716.717.019.0

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers4.1full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher12.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size17.3Scotland 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
Knowepark Primary SchoolCouncil4.5 miles205HMIE, no open dataCompare
Denholm Primary SchoolCouncil4.6 miles73HMIE, no open dataCompare
Newtown Primary SchoolCouncil4.9 miles93HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Lilliesleaf Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Lilliesleaf Primary School have?

52 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
Lilliesleaf, Melrose, Melrose, TD6 9HX
Telephone
01835 870251
Website
lilliesleafprimaryschool.weebly.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
Scottish Borders
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5620023
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from