School Chooser

Tollcross Primary School

Primary · ages 3-11MixedCouncilNon-denominational207 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 meals22%P6 and above; Scotland 38%
Pupils getting extra support63%Scotland 39%
Pupils per teacher17.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 21.0
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
Pupils on roll207Census September 2025

Tollcross Primary School is a council school in Edinburgh for boys and girls aged 3 to 11. It has 207 pupils. About 22 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, about the same as most schools in Scotland.

117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH3 9QG0131 229 7828tollcrossblog.wordpress.comAll 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 Tollcross 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 1.3 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 roll207Census September 2025
Pupils registered for free school meals22%P6 and above. Every P1 to P5 pupil gets a free meal in Scotland
Pupils getting extra support63%Additional support needs
Pupils learning English44%First language is not English
Pupils from the poorest fifth of areas4%Scotland 15%
Pupils from the wealthiest fifth of areas17%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
The youngest year is smaller than P7, so the roll is likely to fall.
21P1
27P2
25P3
21P4
35P5
37P6
41P7
Trend
Pupils on roll
2022 to 2026
2022: 25925920222023: 24824820232024: 25125120242025: 24424420252026: 2072072026
Since 2022: -52
How the school has changed
Year2025/262024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212019/20
Pupils on roll207244251248259
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals21.8%9.2%18.8%21.5%
Pupils getting extra supportAdditional support needs (ASN)62.8%68.4%69.3%65.3%41.3%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language43.5%40.6%34.3%47.2%
Pupils per teacherPupil to teacher ratio17.821.418.118.821.219.117.7
Average class sizeAverage class size23.027.125.124.825.9

Staff

From the pupil and teacher census of September 2025.

Teachers11.6full-time equivalent
Pupils per teacher17.8Scotland 14.1
Average class size23.0Scotland 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
Bruntsfield Primary SchoolCouncil680 m584HMIE, no open dataCompare
Dalry Primary SchoolCouncil980 m191HMIE, no open dataCompare
Sciennes Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles542HMIE, no open dataCompare
St Peter's RC Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles267HMIE, no open dataCompare
Canaan Lane Primary SchoolCouncil1.0 miles186HMIE, no open dataCompare
Stockbridge Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles199HMIE, no open dataCompare
Craiglockhart Primary SchoolCouncil1.1 miles275HMIE, no open dataCompare
Roseburn Primary SchoolCouncil1.2 miles238HMIE, no open dataCompare

Questions parents ask

Is Tollcross Primary School a good school?

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

How many pupils does Tollcross Primary School have?

207 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
117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH3 9QG
Telephone
0131 229 7828
Website
tollcrossblog.wordpress.com
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
Large urban areas
SEED code
5530628
Email
[email protected]

Where these figures come from