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St Boswells Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational159 pupilsScottish Borders
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 support42%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher19.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.7Scotland 21.0
Pupils on roll159Census September 2025
NeighbourhoodAbove-average income areaScottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

St Boswells Primary School is a council school in St Boswells for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 159 pupils.

Greenside Park, St Boswells, St Boswells, TD6 0AH01835 823252scotborders.gov.uk/directory_record/20144/st_boswells_primary_schoolAll 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 St Boswells 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 Scottish Borders council, not the school.

Who goes here

Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.

Pupils on roll159Census September 2025
Pupils getting extra support42%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English4%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
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
20P1
25P2
27P3
17P4
19P5
22P6
29P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 14514520222023: 13813820232024: 14014020242025: 15715720252026: 1591592026
Since 2022: +14
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll159157140138145
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)41.5%32.5%26.4%34.8%24.8%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language3.8%3.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio19.216.717.516.418.117.116.2
Average class sizeAverage class size22.722.423.323.024.2

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers8.3full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher19.2Scotland 14.1
Average class size22.7Scotland 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
Newtown Primary SchoolCouncil1.3 miles93HMIE, no open dataCompare
Melrose Primary SchoolCouncil3.8 miles295HMIE, no open dataCompare
Ancrum Primary SchoolCouncil4.5 miles27HMIE, no open dataCompare
Earlston Primary SchoolCouncil4.9 miles173HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is St Boswells Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does St Boswells Primary School have?

159 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
Greenside Park, St Boswells, St Boswells, TD6 0AH
Telephone
01835 823252
Website
www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory_record/20144/st_boswells_primary_school
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
Scottish Borders
Setting
Accessible rural areas
SEED code
5620325
Medium of education
English medium only
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from