East Linton Primary School, East Linton
East Linton Primary School is a primary school for pupils in East Linton.
- Attendance
- 95.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
East Linton Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
East Linton 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.
East Linton Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 178 pupils, an average class size of 22.2 and 18.2 pupils per teacher.
16% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 53% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.3% in 2024/25, and 9.1% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as poor (C); the school was 99% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to East Linton Primary School are Stenton Primary School (2.7 miles), Athelstaneford Primary School (3.5 miles), West Barns Primary School (4.3 miles) and Law Primary School (5 miles).
Stenton Primary SchoolAthelstaneford Primary SchoolWest Barns Primary SchoolLaw Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is East Linton, about 220 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stories Park (adjacent), 90 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 East Linton Primary School in February 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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 East Linton Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
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.
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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 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 East Linton Primary School
When was East Linton Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of East Linton Primary School in February 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for East Linton Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and East Linton 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 East Lothian. East Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to East Linton Primary School?
If you live in East Linton Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near East Linton 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. 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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 schools, same distance and years).
Where is East Linton Primary School?
East Linton Primary School is at School Road, East Linton, East Linton, EH40 3AJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)