Canaan Lane Primary School, EDINBURGH

Canaan Lane Primary 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.

Canaan Lane Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 186 pupils, an average class size of 23.2 and 18.2 pupils per teacher.

0% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 30% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 14% speak English as an additional language.

0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 80% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 97.4% in 2024/25.

The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 44% full.

In its own words: "Canaan Lane Primary School opened in 2022, providing much needed accommodation for primary school and early years spaces in the Morningside area of Edinburgh. The school is growing incrementally, and when full, will have capacity for 420 primary pupils from Primary 1 to Primary 7 and an Early Learning & Childcare facility for 80 early years spaces."

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:45am and after-school care until 6:00pm.

The nearest other state primary schools to Canaan Lane Primary School are St Peter's RC Primary School (0.2 miles), James Gillespie's Primary School (0.4 miles), Bruntsfield Primary School (0.6 miles) and South Morningside Primary School (0.7 miles).

The nearest railway station is Haymarket Rail Station, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Clinton Road (after), 350 metres away.

The secondary schools closest to Canaan Lane Primary School are James Gillespie's High School (0.5 miles), St Thomas Of Aquin's High School (0.8 miles), Boroughmuir High School (0.9 miles) and Tynecastle High School (1.2 miles).