Mill O'Forest School, KINCARDINESHIRE
Mill O'Forest School is a primary school for pupils in Kincardineshire.
- Attendance
- 93.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Mill O'Forest School in detail
School in Scotland
Mill O'Forest 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.
Mill O'Forest School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 233 pupils, an average class size of 25.9 and 14.3 pupils per teacher.
22% 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 21% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.5% in 2024/25, and 21.4% 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 54% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Mill O'Forest School are Arduthie School (0.6 miles), Dunnottar School (0.9 miles) and Catterline School (4.7 miles).
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Stonehaven Rail Station, about 460 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Holly Drive (at), 90 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 Mill O'Forest School in September 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentweak
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementweak
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
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- 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, 0 serious and 2 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 Mill O'Forest School
When was Mill O'Forest School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Mill O'Forest School in September 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as weak and raising attainment and achievement as weak, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Mill O'Forest School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Mill O'Forest 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 Mill O'Forest School?
If you live in Mill O'Forest 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 Mill O'Forest 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, 0 serious and 2 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 Mill O'Forest School?
Mill O'Forest School is at Woodview Place, Stonehaven, KINCARDINESHIRE, KINCARDINESHIRE, AB39 2TD.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)