Juniper Green Primary School, Edinburgh
Juniper Green Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 95.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Juniper Green Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Juniper Green 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.
Juniper Green Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 384 pupils, an average class size of 27.4 and 18.3 pupils per teacher.
8% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 24% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 13% speak English as an additional language.
7% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 77% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.7% in 2024/25, and 10.4% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 89% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Juniper Green Primary School are Clovenstone Primary School (0.5 miles), Canal View Primary School (0.7 miles), Nether Currie Primary School (0.9 miles) and Sighthill Primary School (0.9 miles).
Clovenstone Primary SchoolCanal View Primary SchoolNether Currie Primary SchoolSighthill Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Wester Hailes Rail Station, about 760 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Baberton Mains Green (after), 120 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Juniper Green Primary School are Wester Hailes High School (0.7 miles), Merchiston Castle School (1.3 miles), Currie Community High School (1.5 miles) and Forrester High School (1.6 miles).
Wester Hailes High SchoolMerchiston Castle SchoolCurrie Community High SchoolForrester High School
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 Juniper Green Primary School in November 2022.
- 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 Juniper Green Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 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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Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Juniper Green Primary School
Questions parents ask about Juniper Green Primary School
When was Juniper Green Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Juniper Green Primary School in November 2022. 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 Juniper Green Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Juniper Green Primary 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 Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Juniper Green Primary School?
If you live in Juniper Green Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Edinburgh City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Edinburgh City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Juniper Green Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Juniper Green Primary School?
Juniper Green Primary School is at 20 Baberton Mains Wynd, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH14 3EE.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)