Kemnay Primary School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Kemnay Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 94.8%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kemnay Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Kemnay 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.
Kemnay Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 223 pupils, an average class size of 27.9 and 16.8 pupils per teacher.
34% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 3% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 51% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.8% in 2024/25, and 11.3% 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 89% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Kemnay Primary School are Alehousewells School (0.6 miles), Monymusk School (3 miles), Cluny School (3.2 miles) and Kintore School (3.6 miles).
Alehousewells SchoolMonymusk SchoolCluny SchoolKintore School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Kemnay Primary School.
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Littlewood Court (opposite), 140 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 Kemnay Primary School in November 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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 Kemnay Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 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 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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Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Kemnay Primary School
Questions parents ask about Kemnay Primary School
When was Kemnay Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kemnay Primary School in November 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kemnay Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kemnay 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Kemnay Primary School?
If you live in Kemnay Primary 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 Kemnay Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 1 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Kemnay Primary School?
Kemnay Primary School is at Grove Road, Kemnay Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 5RA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)