Inch View Primary and Nursery School, PERTH
Inch View Primary and Nursery School is a primary school for pupils in Perth.
- Attendance
- 90.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Inch View Primary and Nursery School in detail
School in Scotland
Inch View Primary and Nursery 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.
Inch View Primary and Nursery School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 349 pupils, an average class size of 21.8 and 15.7 pupils per teacher.
49% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 48% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 24% speak English as an additional language.
28% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 9% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.7% in 2024/25, and 32.4% 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 84% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Inch View Primary and Nursery School are Craigie Primary School (0.2 miles), Moncreiffe Primary School (0.5 miles), Viewlands Primary School (0.8 miles) and Kinnoull Primary School (0.9 miles).
Craigie Primary SchoolMoncreiffe Primary SchoolViewlands Primary SchoolKinnoull Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Perth Rail Station, about 550 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).
14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Glenearn Community Campus (at), 60 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Inch View Primary and Nursery School are Perth Academy (0.8 miles), Perth High School (1.2 miles), Perth Grammar School (1.6 miles) and St John's RC Academy (1.6 miles).
Perth AcademyPerth High SchoolPerth Grammar SchoolSt John's RC Academy
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 Inch View Primary and Nursery School in September 2024.
- 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
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Inch View Primary and Nursery School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 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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Inch View Primary and Nursery School
Questions parents ask about Inch View Primary and Nursery School
When was Inch View Primary and Nursery School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Inch View Primary and Nursery School in September 2024. 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 Inch View Primary and Nursery School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Inch View Primary and Nursery 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 Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Inch View Primary and Nursery School?
If you live in Inch View Primary and Nursery School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Inch View Primary and Nursery School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Inch View Primary and Nursery School?
Inch View Primary and Nursery School is at Glenearn Community Campus, Glenearn Road, PERTH, PERTH, PH2 0BE.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)