Carnegie Primary School, FIFE
Carnegie Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Fife.
- Attendance
- 93.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Carnegie Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Carnegie 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.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 609 pupils, an average class size of 29 and 21 pupils per teacher.
18% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 14% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 1% speak English as an additional language.
9% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 38% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.9% in 2024/25, and 17.2% 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); the school was 94% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Carnegie Primary School are Touch Primary School (0.8 miles), Crossgates Primary School (1 mile), Lynburn Primary School (1.1 miles) and Bellyeoman Primary School (1.4 miles).
Touch Primary SchoolCrossgates Primary SchoolLynburn Primary SchoolBellyeoman Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dunfermline Queen Margaret Rail Station, about 990 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fife College Car Park (adjacent), 30 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 Carnegie Primary School in August 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
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 Carnegie Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 11
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 1
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, 4 serious and 7 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
2 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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Questions parents ask about Carnegie Primary School
When was Carnegie Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Carnegie Primary School in August 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as very good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Carnegie Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Carnegie 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 Carnegie Primary School?
If you live in Carnegie 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 Carnegie Primary School?
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, 4 serious and 7 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 2 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 Carnegie Primary School?
Carnegie Primary School is at Pittsburgh Road, Dunfermline, FIFE, FIFE, KY11 8SS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)