Meldrum School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Meldrum School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 94.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Meldrum School in detail
School in Scotland
Meldrum 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.
Meldrum School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 382 pupils, an average class size of 25.5 and 17.1 pupils per teacher.
15% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 24% 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 72% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.7% in 2024/25, and 11% 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 83% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Meldrum School are Uryside School (3.1 miles), Daviot School (3.6 miles), Keithhall School (3.9 miles) and Strathburn School (4 miles).
Uryside SchoolDaviot SchoolKeithhall SchoolStrathburn School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Meldrum School.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Donald Gordon Court (opposite), 130 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 Meldrum School in February 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
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
Latest from Meldrum School
Newsletter 18 August 2026
18 Aug 2026
Newsletter 2 March 2026
2 Mar 2026
Newsletter 11 December 2025
11 Dec 2025
Newsletter 8 October 2025
8 Oct 2025
Newsletter 19 August 2025
19 Aug 2025
Newsletter 16 June 2025
16 Jun 2025
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 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 Meldrum School
When was Meldrum School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Meldrum School in February 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Meldrum School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Meldrum 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 Meldrum School?
If you live in Meldrum 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 Meldrum School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Meldrum School?
Meldrum School is at Meadowbank, Oldmeldrum Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 0BF.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)