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Linkwood Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational246 pupilsElginMoray
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 meals39%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support46%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher13.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.6Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll246Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAverage income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Linkwood Primary School is a council school in Elgin for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 246 pupils. About 39 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

Institution Road, ELGIN, Elgin, IV30 1RP01343 547782blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/linkwoodprimaryschoolAll 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 Linkwood 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 Moray council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll246Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals39%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support46%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English7%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.
28P1
33P2
37P3
23P4
51P5
47P6
27P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 25725720222023: 31431420232024: 29529520242025: 27127120252026: 2462462026
Since 2022: -11
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll246271295314257
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals39.2%31.3%25.0%25.0%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)45.9%46.1%37.6%41.1%28.4%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.5%7.0%7.5%7.6%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio13.514.013.814.315.313.615.6
Average class sizeAverage class size24.624.622.726.223.4

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers18.2full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher13.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size24.6Scotland 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
East End Primary SchoolCouncil0 m166HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Sylvester's RC Primary SchoolCouncil270 m115HMIE, no open dataCompare
West End Primary SchoolCouncil990 m198HMIE, no open dataCompare
New Elgin Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles367HMIE, no open dataCompare
Seafield Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles335HMIE, no open dataCompare
Greenwards Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles320HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bishopmill Primary SchoolCouncil0.9 miles400HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mosstowie Primary SchoolCouncil3.2 miles67HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Linkwood Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Linkwood Primary School have?

246 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
Institution Road, ELGIN, Elgin, IV30 1RP
Telephone
01343 547782
Website
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/linkwoodprimaryschool
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
Moray
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
1003674
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from