Kinellar School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Kinellar School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 95.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kinellar School in detail
School in Scotland
Kinellar 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.
Kinellar School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 336 pupils, an average class size of 25.8 and 18.2 pupils per teacher.
30% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 2% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 54% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.1% in 2024/25, and 10.8% 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 69% full.
Kinellar School in its own words
In its own words: "See below a copy of our Standards and Quality report for 25-26 and our Improvement Priorities for 26-27."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Kinellar School are Midmill School (2.5 miles), Hatton (Fintray) School (2.5 miles), Kintore School (3.1 miles) and Crombie School (3.3 miles).
Midmill SchoolHatton (Fintray) SchoolKintore SchoolCrombie School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Kintore Railway Station, about 3.6 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fechnie Brae (opposite), 10 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 Kinellar School in March 2024.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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 Kinellar 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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Questions parents ask about Kinellar School
When was Kinellar School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kinellar School in March 2024. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kinellar School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kinellar 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 Kinellar School?
If you live in Kinellar 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 Kinellar 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 Kinellar School?
Kinellar School is at Fintray Road, Blackburn, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB21 0SR.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)