Harmeny Education Trust, MIDLOTHIAN
Harmeny Education Trust is a special school for pupils in Midlothian.
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Harmeny Education Trust in detail
School in Scotland
Harmeny Education Trust is a grant aided school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 29 pupils and 2.8 pupils per teacher.
100% 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).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Harmeny Education Trust are Woodlands School (1.4 miles), Redhall School (4.1 miles), Braidburn Special School (4.6 miles) and Westfield Secondary (Previously Gorgie Mills Special School) (5.5 miles).
Woodlands SchoolRedhall SchoolBraidburn Special SchoolWestfield Secondary (Previously Gorgie Mills Special School)
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Curriehill Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Cockburn Crescent (at), 300 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 Harmeny Education Trust in November 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Harmeny Education Trust
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 Grant aided is 2.5 (the median across 8 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 Harmeny Education Trust
When was Harmeny Education Trust last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Harmeny Education Trust in November 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Harmeny Education Trust?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Harmeny Education Trust 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 Grant aided. Grant aided publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Harmeny Education Trust?
If you live in Harmeny Education Trust's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Grant aided will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Grant aided - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Harmeny Education Trust?
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 Grant aided is 2.5 (the median across 8 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Harmeny Education Trust?
Harmeny Education Trust is at 45 Mansfield Road, Balerno, MIDLOTHIAN, MIDLOTHIAN, EH14 7JY.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)