Crown Primary School, Inverness

Crown 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.

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

In the 2025 pupil census it had 250 pupils, an average class size of 25 and 20.5 pupils per teacher.

27% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 17% speak English as an additional language.

5% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 10% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 94.2% in 2024/25, and 18.6% 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 73% full.

In its own words: "Every year we publish a School Improvement Plan (SIP) which demonstrates how we plan to continue to improve our school and the impact we expect these improvements to have on our learners and wider community. Here is a copy of a family-friendly version for session 2026-27."

From the headteacher's welcome: "It is a huge privilege to lead the learning at Crown Primary School. I’ve been Headteacher here since 2016 and there’s nowhere I’d rather be!"

The school runs a breakfast club, from £4.50 per morning.

The nearest other state primary schools to Crown Primary School are St Joseph's RC Primary (0.5 miles), Central Primary School (0.5 miles), Bishop Eden's Primary School (0.6 miles) and Raigmore Primary School (0.7 miles).

The nearest railway station is Inverness Rail Station, about 520 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Kingsmills Road (after), 30 metres away.

The secondary schools closest to Crown Primary School are Millburn Academy (0.4 miles), Inverness High School (0.7 miles) and Charleston Academy (1.5 miles).