Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh, PORTREE
Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh is a primary school for pupils in Portree.
- Attendance
- 94.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh in detail
School in Scotland
Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh 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.
Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh offers Gaelic-medium education and has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 169 pupils, an average class size of 24.1 and 19.4 pupils per teacher.
20% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.5% in 2024/25, and 11.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 90% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh are Portree Primary (0.6 miles) and Macdiarmid Primary School (3.8 miles).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh.
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bun Sgoil Ghaidhlig Phort Righ (at), 100 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 Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh's reports on the inspectorate's website.
About
Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Righ is a Gaelic-medium all-gender primary school in Portree on Skye, Scotland. The school opened April 2018, becoming the third purpose-built Gaelic school in the Highland Council area.
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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
- 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.
1 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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 Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh
What is the catchment area for Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh?
If you live in Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh?
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. 1 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh?
Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh is at Bun-Sgoil Ghaidhlig Phort Righ, Struan Road, PORTREE, PORTREE, IV51 9EG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)