New Machar School, ABERDEENSHIRE
New Machar School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 95.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
New Machar School in detail
School in Scotland
New Machar 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.
New Machar School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 334 pupils, an average class size of 25.7 and 19.2 pupils per teacher.
33% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 25% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.1% in 2024/25, and 12.9% 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 69% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to New Machar School are Hatton (Fintray) School (3.5 miles), Cultercullen School (3.6 miles), Dyce School (4.1 miles) and Udny Green School (4.3 miles).
Hatton (Fintray) SchoolCultercullen SchoolDyce SchoolUdny Green School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of New Machar School.
5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Corseduick Park (at), 160 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 New Machar School in March 2024.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 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
Keep up with New Machar School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 1
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 serious and 0 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 New Machar School
When was New Machar School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of New Machar School in March 2024. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for New Machar School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and New Machar 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 New Machar School?
If you live in New Machar 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 New Machar School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 serious and 0 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 New Machar School?
New Machar School is at 7 School Road, Newmachar, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB21 0WB.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)