Echt School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Echt School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 97.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Echt School in detail
School in Scotland
Echt 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.
Echt School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 57 pupils, an average class size of 19 and 12.7 pupils per teacher.
21% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 97.1% in 2024/25.
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 76% full.
Echt School in its own words
In its own words: "Echt School and Nursery is a small rural school situated in the village of Echt. It lies approximately 13 miles west of Aberdeen on the Aberdeen - Tarland road. The school has 3 classrooms, one of which accommodates Nursery and P1-2 with a shared space between the two classes which has direct access to outdoors."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Echt School are Dunecht School (2.3 miles), Skene School (3.6 miles), Midmar School (3.7 miles) and Crathes School (4.2 miles).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Echt School.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Post Office (at), 50 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 Echt School in March 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 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 Echt School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025.
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 Echt School
When was Echt School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Echt School in March 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as 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 Echt School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Echt 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 Echt School?
If you live in Echt 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 Echt School?
No injury road collisions were reported to the police within 500 m of the school's mapped location in 2021 to 2025. The typical figure for schools in Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Echt School?
Echt School is at Echt, Skene, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB32 6UL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)