Anna Ritchie School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Anna Ritchie School is a special school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 90.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Anna Ritchie School in detail
School in Scotland
Anna Ritchie 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.
Anna Ritchie School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 68 pupils and 4.6 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 12% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 90.1% in 2024/25, and 32.1% 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 satisfactory (B).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Anna Ritchie School.
17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Grange Gardens (at), 60 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 Anna Ritchie School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 1 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 Anna Ritchie School
What is the catchment area for Anna Ritchie School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Anna Ritchie 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 Anna Ritchie School?
If you live in Anna Ritchie 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 Anna Ritchie School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 1 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 Anna Ritchie School?
Anna Ritchie School is at Grange Gardens, Peterhead, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB42 2AP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)