Burnhouse Skills Centre, WEST LOTHIAN
Burnhouse Skills Centre is a special school for pupils in West Lothian.
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Burnhouse Skills Centre in detail
School in Scotland
Burnhouse Skills Centre 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.
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Burnhouse Skills Centre are Connolly Campus School (2.7 miles); Pinewood School (3.1 miles); and Moore House Academy Bathgate (including Moore House Primary, Buchanan House) (3.8 miles).
Connolly Campus SchoolPinewood SchoolMoore House Academy Bathgate (including Moore House Primary, Buchanan House)
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Armadale Railway Station, about 1.6 miles away in a straight line.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Brown Street (after), 110 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
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Burnhouse Skills Centre in June 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Burnhouse Skills Centre
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 11
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 11 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 9 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on a bicycle and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.
3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 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 Burnhouse Skills Centre
When was Burnhouse Skills Centre last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Burnhouse Skills Centre in June 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Burnhouse Skills Centre?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Burnhouse Skills Centre 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 West Lothian. West Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Burnhouse Skills Centre?
If you live in Burnhouse Skills Centre's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Burnhouse Skills Centre?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 11 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 9 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on a bicycle and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Burnhouse Skills Centre?
Burnhouse Skills Centre is at The Avenue, Whitburn, WEST LOTHIAN, WEST LOTHIAN, EH47 0BX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)