Mount Pleasant Primary School, Thurso
Mount Pleasant Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Thurso.
- Attendance
- 91.5%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Mount Pleasant Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Mount Pleasant 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.
Mount Pleasant Primary School offers Gaelic-medium education and has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 154 pupils, an average class size of 19.2 and 15.1 pupils per teacher.
34% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals and 26% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91.5% in 2024/25, and 30.8% 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 Mount Pleasant Primary School are Miller Academy Primary School (0.5 miles) and Pennyland Primary School (0.8 miles).
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Thurso Rail Station, about 1020 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Shop (outside), 170 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Mount Pleasant Primary School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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 Mount Pleasant Primary School
What is the catchment area for Mount Pleasant Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Mount Pleasant 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Mount Pleasant Primary School?
If you live in Mount Pleasant Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Mount Pleasant Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mount Pleasant Primary School?
Mount Pleasant Primary School is at Castletown Road, Thurso, Thurso, KW14 8HL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)