Kellands School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Kellands School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 94.6%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kellands School in detail
School in Scotland
Kellands 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.
Kellands School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 355 pupils, an average class size of 23.7 and 16.7 pupils per teacher.
22% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 47% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 21% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.6% in 2024/25, and 14.8% 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 80% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Kellands School are Strathburn School (0.5 miles), Port Elphinstone School (0.7 miles), Uryside School (1.3 miles) and Keithhall School (2.1 miles).
Strathburn SchoolPort Elphinstone SchoolUryside SchoolKeithhall School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverurie Rail Station, about 940 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Kellands Avenue (adjacent), 160 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 Kellands School in June 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionvery good
- 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
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 3
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 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 Kellands School
When was Kellands School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kellands School in June 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kellands School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kellands 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Kellands School?
If you live in Kellands School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Kellands School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 3 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Kellands School?
Kellands School is at Upper Manse Road, Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 3YH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)