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Sandhaven School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational74 pupilsFraserburghAberdeenshire
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 teacher10.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size18.5Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll74Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Sandhaven School is a council school in Fraserburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 74 pupils. About 53 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in Scotland.

High Street, Sandhaven, FRASERBURGH, Fraserburgh, AB43 7EQ01346 415835sandhaven.aberdeenshire.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 Sandhaven School.

Getting a place

Catchment area

Aberdeenshire council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 8.2 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 Aberdeenshire council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll74Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support69%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English7%First language is not English
NeighbourhoodBelow-average income areaIf Scotland's neighbourhoods were split into ten groups from poorest to wealthiest, this one is in group 4 (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020)
By stage
Pupils in each year, 2025/26
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
8P1
7P2
9P3
12P4
14P5
13P6
11P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 939320222023: 959520232024: 808020242025: 696920252026: 74742026
Since 2022: -19
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll7469809593
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals39.1%41.9%52.6%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)68.9%56.5%58.8%57.9%61.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language6.8%10.1%11.3%10.5%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio10.713.511.911.010.612.513.6
Average class sizeAverage class size18.523.020.019.018.6

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers6.9full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher10.7Scotland 14.1
Average class size18.5Scotland 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
Lochpots SchoolCouncil1.4 miles156HMIE, no open dataCompare
Fraserburgh North SchoolCouncil1.8 miles86HMIE, no open dataCompare
Fraserburgh South Park SchoolCouncil2.0 miles368HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Andrew's Primary SchoolCouncil2.0 miles292HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rosehearty SchoolCouncil2.1 miles122HMIE, no open dataCompare
Tyrie SchoolCouncil4.3 miles20HMIE, no open dataCompare
Rathen SchoolCouncil4.8 miles72HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Sandhaven School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Sandhaven School have?

74 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
High Street, Sandhaven, FRASERBURGH, Fraserburgh, AB43 7EQ
Telephone
01346 415835
Website
www.sandhaven.aberdeenshire.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
Aberdeenshire
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5219523
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from