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Sacred Heart Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilRoman Catholic125 pupilsPenicuikMidlothian
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 support69%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher14.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.8Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll125Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Sacred Heart Primary School is a council school in Penicuik for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 125 pupils. About 11 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Crockett Gardens, Penicuik, Penicuik, EH26 9BB0131 271 4665sacredheart.mgfl.netAll 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 Sacred Heart 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 Midlothian council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll125Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support69%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English20%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas0%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas30%Scotland 15%
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 7 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
16P1
24P2
22P3
18P4
9P5
18P6
18P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 12212220222023: 12312320232024: 12712720242025: 12612620252026: 1251252026
Since 2022: +3
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll125126127123122
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals16.2%10.9%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)68.8%43.7%40.2%48.0%49.2%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language20.0%14.3%7.1%5.7%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio14.514.814.014.516.112.915.1
Average class sizeAverage class size20.821.021.220.520.3

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher14.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.8Scotland 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
Cuiken Primary SchoolCouncil340 m230HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cornbank Primary SchoolCouncil440 m291HMIE, no open dataCompare
Strathesk Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles187HMIE, no open dataCompare
Mauricewood Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles341HMIE, no open dataCompare
Roslin Primary SchoolCouncil3.0 miles330HMIE, no open dataCompare
Bilston Primary SchoolCouncil3.3 miles242HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rosewell Primary SchoolCouncil4.1 miles208HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Matthew's Primary SchoolCouncil4.1 miles53HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Sacred Heart Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Sacred Heart Primary School have?

125 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
Crockett Gardens, Penicuik, Penicuik, EH26 9BB
Telephone
0131 271 4665
Website
sacredheart.mgfl.net
Type of school
Council school (Local authority school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 3-11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Local authority
Midlothian
Setting
Other urban areas
SEED code
5545323
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from