Alehousewells School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Alehousewells School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 92.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Alehousewells School in detail
School in Scotland
Alehousewells School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
Alehousewells School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 116 pupils, an average class size of 23.2 and 17.1 pupils per teacher.
40% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 62% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 9% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.1% in 2024/25, and 22.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 54% full.
Alehousewells School in its own words
In its own words: "Alehousewells Primary Nursery School is situated in the village of Kemnay approximately 17 miles from Aberdeen and 6 miles from the town of Inverurie. The village is in a rural setting and has several shops and businesses. The school is nondenominational."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Alehousewells School are Kemnay Primary School (0.6 miles), Monymusk School (3 miles), Cluny School (3.5 miles) and Port Elphinstone School (3.6 miles).
Kemnay Primary SchoolMonymusk SchoolCluny SchoolPort Elphinstone School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Alehousewells School.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Academy (at), 50 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Alehousewells School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Questions parents ask about Alehousewells School
What is the catchment area for Alehousewells School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Alehousewells School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Alehousewells School?
If you live in Alehousewells School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Alehousewells School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Alehousewells School?
Alehousewells School is at Bremner Way, Kemnay Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 5FW.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)