Georgetown School, Dumfries
Georgetown School is a primary school for pupils in Dumfries.
- Attendance
- 95.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Georgetown School in detail
School in Scotland
Georgetown 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.
Georgetown School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 311 pupils, an average class size of 20.7 and 14.9 pupils per teacher.
25% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 36% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
2% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 50% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.7% in 2024/25, and 9.6% 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 good (A); the school was 86% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Georgetown School are Calside School (0.3 miles), Noblehill School (0.4 miles), St Andrew's RC School (0.4 miles) and St Michael's School (0.6 miles).
Calside SchoolNoblehill SchoolSt Andrew's RC SchoolSt Michael's School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dumfries Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is School (at 98), 80 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Georgetown School are St Joseph's College (0.5 miles), Dumfries High School (0.8 miles) and Dumfries Academy (1.1 miles).
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 Georgetown School in August 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
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 Georgetown School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on a bicycle.
2 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 Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 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
Georgetown School
Questions parents ask about Georgetown School
When was Georgetown School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Georgetown School in August 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as very good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Georgetown School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Georgetown 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 Dumfries & Galloway. Dumfries & Galloway publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Georgetown School?
If you live in Georgetown School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Dumfries & Galloway will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Dumfries & Galloway - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Georgetown School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on a bicycle. 2 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 Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Georgetown School?
Georgetown School is at Gillbrae Road, Dumfries, Dumfries, DG1 4EJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)