Elrick School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Elrick School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 95.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Elrick School in detail
School in Scotland
Elrick 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.
Elrick School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 327 pupils, an average class size of 27.2 and 20.1 pupils per teacher.
20% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 70% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.8% in 2024/25, and 6.9% 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 74% full.
Elrick School in its own words
From the headteacher's welcome: "Welcome to Elrick Primary School. I hope that our partnership will be productive and enjoyable and that your child settles quickly with us. We take pride in the fact that this is a happy and industrious school with a real sense of team spirit. We know that your child will enjoy their time at Elrick Primary."
Headteacher's welcome (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Elrick School are Crombie School (0.5 miles), Westhill Primary School (0.5 miles), Skene School (2 miles) and Kingswells School (2.5 miles).
Crombie SchoolWesthill Primary SchoolSkene SchoolKingswells School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Elrick School.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fraser Drive (at), 150 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 Elrick School in July 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 Elrick School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 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 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Elrick School
Questions parents ask about Elrick School
When was Elrick School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Elrick School in July 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 Elrick School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Elrick 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 Elrick School?
If you live in Elrick 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 Elrick School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Elrick School?
Elrick School is at Rowan Drive, Westhill, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB32 6QB.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)