Hermitage Park Primary School, Edinburgh

Hermitage Park 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.

Hermitage Park Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.

In the 2025 pupil census it had 231 pupils, an average class size of 23.1 and 15.3 pupils per teacher.

27% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 54% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 22% speak English as an additional language.

34% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 14% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).

Attendance was 92.5% in 2024/25, and 25.7% 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 55% full.

The nearest other state primary schools to Hermitage Park Primary School are Leith Primary School (0.4 miles), Star of the Sea RC Primary School (Previously St Mary's RC Primary School (Leith)) (0.4 miles), Lorne Primary School (0.4 miles) and St Ninian's RC Primary School (0.6 miles).

The nearest tram or metro stop is Foot of the Walk (Edinburgh Trams), about 770 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).

15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hermitage Park Grove (after), 70 metres away.

The secondary schools closest to Hermitage Park Primary School are Leith Academy (0.2 miles), Drummond Community High School (1.2 miles) and Trinity Academy (1.4 miles).