Canongate Primary School, St Andrews
Canongate Primary School is a primary school for pupils in St Andrews.
- Attendance
- 94.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Canongate Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Canongate 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.
Canongate Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 188 pupils, an average class size of 18.8 and 14.1 pupils per teacher.
22% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 37% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 38% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.1% in 2024/25, and 16% 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 87% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Canongate Primary School are Lawhead Primary School (0.6 miles), Greyfriars RC Primary School (0.8 miles), Strathkinness Primary School (2.4 miles) and Guardbridge Primary School (3.9 miles).
Lawhead Primary SchoolGreyfriars RC Primary SchoolStrathkinness Primary SchoolGuardbridge Primary School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Canongate Primary School.
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Learmonth Place (adjacent), 140 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 Canongate Primary School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 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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Secondary Schools Nearby
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Questions parents ask about Canongate Primary School
What is the catchment area for Canongate Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Canongate Primary 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 Fife. Fife publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Canongate Primary School?
If you live in Canongate Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Fife will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Fife - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Canongate Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Canongate Primary School?
Canongate Primary School is at Maynard Road, St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 8RX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)