Longniddry Primary School, EAST LOTHIAN
Longniddry Primary School is a primary school for pupils in East Lothian.
- Attendance
- 95.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Longniddry Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Longniddry 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.
Longniddry Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 173 pupils, an average class size of 21.6 and 17.7 pupils per teacher.
34% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 95.2% in 2024/25, and 9.1% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 63% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Longniddry Primary School are Macmerry Primary School (2.4 miles), Aberlady Primary School (2.4 miles), Blindwells Primary School (2.6 miles) and Cockenzie Primary School (2.6 miles).
Macmerry Primary SchoolAberlady Primary SchoolBlindwells Primary SchoolCockenzie Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Longniddry Rail Station, about 200 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Railway Station (opposite), 60 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 Longniddry Primary School in September 2023.
- 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 Longniddry Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
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.
1 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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 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 Longniddry Primary School
When was Longniddry Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Longniddry Primary School in September 2023. 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 Longniddry Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Longniddry 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 East Lothian. East Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Longniddry Primary School?
If you live in Longniddry Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and East Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to East Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Longniddry 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. 1 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 East Lothian is 4 (the median across 43 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Longniddry Primary School?
Longniddry Primary School is at Kitchener Crescent, Longniddry, EAST LOTHIAN, EAST LOTHIAN, EH32 0LR.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)