Deans Primary School, LIVINGSTON
Deans Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Livingston.
- Attendance
- 91.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Deans Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Deans 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.
Deans Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 197 pupils, an average class size of 21.9 and 14.3 pupils per teacher.
32% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 50% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 11% speak English as an additional language.
51% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 3% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91.5% in 2024/25, and 27.9% 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 56% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Deans Primary School are Meldrum Primary School (0.4 miles), St John Ogilvie Primary School (0.5 miles), Carmondean Primary School (0.9 miles) and Peel Primary School (1.1 miles).
Meldrum Primary SchoolSt John Ogilvie Primary SchoolCarmondean Primary SchoolPeel Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Livingston North Rail Station, about 1090 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Deans Primary School (at), 60 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Deans Primary School are Deans Community High School (0.6 miles) and Inveralmond Community High School (1.6 miles).
Deans Community High SchoolInveralmond Community High School
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 Deans Primary School in November 2022.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
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
Keep up with Deans Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Deans Primary School
Questions parents ask about Deans Primary School
When was Deans Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Deans Primary School in November 2022. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Deans Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Deans 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 West Lothian. West Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Deans Primary School?
If you live in Deans Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Deans Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Deans Primary School?
Deans Primary School is at Deans South, Deans, LIVINGSTON, LIVINGSTON, EH54 8DB.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)