Carronhill School, KINCARDINESHIRE
Carronhill School is a special school for pupils in Kincardineshire.
- Attendance
- 91.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Carronhill School in detail
School in Scotland
Carronhill 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.
Carronhill School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 38 pupils and 4.4 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 29% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91.3% in 2024/25, and 28.2% 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).
Carronhill School in its own words
In its own words: "At Carronhill School, we are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment. We strive to create a compassionate community that accepts and enables all our pupils and families, within a culture of kindness, empathy and positivity. It is important to us that everyone is treated with the utmost dignity and respect."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stonehaven Rail Station, about 570 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Newbigging Drive (at), 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 Carronhill School in November 2022.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- 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, 0 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 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 Carronhill School
When was Carronhill School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Carronhill School in November 2022. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Carronhill School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Carronhill 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Carronhill School?
If you live in Carronhill School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Carronhill 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, 0 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Carronhill School?
Carronhill School is at Mill of Forest Road, Stonehaven, KINCARDINESHIRE, KINCARDINESHIRE, AB39 2GZ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)