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Queensferry Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational535 pupilsEdinburghEdinburgh City
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 meals13%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support28%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher20.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size26.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll535Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Queensferry Primary School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 535 pupils. About 13 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Burgess Road, South Queensferry, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH30 9NX0131 331 1349queensferry-pri.edin.sch.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 Queensferry Primary School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Edinburgh City council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 2.6 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 Edinburgh City council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll535Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals13%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support28%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English5%First language is not English
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.
69P1
69P2
75P3
83P4
90P5
78P6
71P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 51251220222023: 52852820232024: 53553520242025: 54554520252026: 5355352026
Since 2022: +23
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll535545535528512
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals13.4%7.2%8.6%7.1%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)28.0%20.7%18.5%33.7%35.2%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language4.7%4.8%2.1%2.3%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio20.520.821.320.919.621.222.3
Average class sizeAverage class size26.827.326.826.426.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers26.1full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher20.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size26.8Scotland 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
St Margaret's RC Primary SchoolCouncil440 m107HMIE, no open dataCompare
Echline Primary SchoolCouncil0.6 miles280HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dalmeny Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles72HMIE, no open dataCompare
North Queensferry Primary SchoolCouncil1.7 miles65HMIE, no open dataCompare
Kirkliston Primary SchoolCouncil2.3 miles595HMIE, no open dataCompare
Hawkhill Primary SchoolCouncil2.9 miles92HMIE, no open dataCompare
Donibristle Primary SchoolCouncil3.3 miles325HMIE, no open dataCompare
Inverkeithing Primary SchoolCouncil3.3 miles351HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Queensferry Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Queensferry Primary School have?

535 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
Burgess Road, South Queensferry, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, EH30 9NX
Telephone
0131 331 1349
Website
www.queensferry-pri.edin.sch.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
Edinburgh City
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
5518024
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from