King's Park Primary School, Dalkeith
King's Park Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Dalkeith.
- Attendance
- 95.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
King's Park Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
King's Park 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.
King's Park Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 481 pupils, an average class size of 26.7 and 17.8 pupils per teacher.
9% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 27% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
20% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 24% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.1% in 2024/25, and 10.6% 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 poor (C); the school was 90% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to King's Park Primary School are St David's RC Primary School (0.7 miles), Woodburn Primary School (1.2 miles), Mayfield Primary School (1.3 miles) and Easthouses Primary School (1.3 miles).
St David's RC Primary SchoolWoodburn Primary SchoolMayfield Primary SchoolEasthouses Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Eskbank Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Buccleuch Street (at), 80 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to King's Park Primary School are Dalkeith High School (1.2 miles), St David's RC High School (1.2 miles) and Newbattle High School (1.5 miles).
Dalkeith High SchoolSt David's RC High SchoolNewbattle 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 King's Park Primary School in April 2026.
- 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 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 King's Park Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 14
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 7
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 7 serious and 7 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.
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 Midlothian is 3 (the median across 39 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 King's Park Primary School
When was King's Park Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of King's Park Primary School in April 2026. 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 very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for King's Park Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and King's Park 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 Midlothian. Midlothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to King's Park Primary School?
If you live in King's Park Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Midlothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Midlothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near King's Park Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 7 serious and 7 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 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 Midlothian is 3 (the median across 39 schools, same distance and years).
Where is King's Park Primary School?
King's Park Primary School is at 20 Croft Street, Dalkeith, Dalkeith, EH22 3BA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)