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Saline Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational124 pupilsDunfermlineFife
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 support32%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher15.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll124Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Saline Primary School is a council school in Dunfermline for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 124 pupils. About 15 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in Scotland.

Oakley Road, Saline, DUNFERMLINE, Dunfermline, KY12 9TG01383 602430fifedirect.org.uk/salinepsAll 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 Saline 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 Fife council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll124Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support32%Additional support needs
Pupils taught in Gaelic50%
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 3 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
Year groups up to P7 are about the same size.
20P1
16P2
15P3
16P4
21P5
19P6
17P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 13013020222023: 13713720232024: 13413420242025: 13513520252026: 1241242026
Since 2022: -6
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll124135134137130
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals15.4%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)31.5%38.5%44.0%6.6%6.9%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio15.517.314.914.012.912.020.9
Average class sizeAverage class size20.722.522.322.821.7

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.0full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher15.5Scotland 14.1
Average class size20.7Scotland 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
Blairhall Primary SchoolCouncil1.8 miles64HMIE, no open dataCompare
Holy Name RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.9 miles29HMIE, no open dataCompare
Inzievar Primary SchoolCouncil1.9 miles205HMIE, no open dataCompare
Carnock Primary SchoolCouncil2.2 miles64HMIE, no open dataCompare
Torryburn Primary SchoolCouncil3.6 miles96HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Serf's R C Primary SchoolCouncil3.7 miles73HMIE, no open dataCompare
Cairneyhill Primary & Community SchoolCouncil3.8 miles227HMIE, no open dataCompare
Milesmark Primary SchoolCouncil4.1 miles91HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Saline Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Saline Primary School have?

124 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
Oakley Road, Saline, DUNFERMLINE, Dunfermline, KY12 9TG
Telephone
01383 602430
Website
www.fifedirect.org.uk/salineps
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
Fife
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5445124
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from