Newport Primary School, Newport-on-Tay
Newport Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Newport-on-Tay.
- Attendance
- 95.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Newport Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Newport 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.
Newport Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 198 pupils, an average class size of 24.8 and 13.9 pupils per teacher.
25% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 28% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.3% in 2024/25, and 9.3% 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 82% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Newport Primary School are Wormit Primary School (1.3 miles), Tayport Primary School (2.3 miles), Glebelands Primary School (2.5 miles) and Blackness Primary School (2.7 miles).
Wormit Primary SchoolTayport Primary SchoolGlebelands Primary SchoolBlackness Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Dundee Rail Station, about 2.1 miles away in a straight line.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Primary School (adjacent), 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 Newport Primary School in December 2022.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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 Newport Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- 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: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 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 Newport Primary School
When was Newport Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Newport Primary School in December 2022. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as 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 Newport Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Newport 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 Fife. Fife publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Newport Primary School?
If you live in Newport Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Fife will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Fife - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Newport 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. 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Newport Primary School?
Newport Primary School is at Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay, Newport-on-Tay, DD6 8JT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)