Park Road Primary School, DUNFERMLINE
Park Road Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Dunfermline.
- Attendance
- 90.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Park Road Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Park Road 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.
Park Road Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 162 pupils, an average class size of 23.1 and 16.9 pupils per teacher.
37% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals and 40% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 90.9% in 2024/25, and 31.6% 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 58% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Park Road Primary School are St John's R C Primary School (0.6 miles), King's Road Primary School (0.7 miles), Camdean Primary School (0.8 miles) and Inverkeithing Primary School (1 mile).
St John's R C Primary SchoolKing's Road Primary SchoolCamdean Primary SchoolInverkeithing Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverkeithing Rail Station, about 820 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Middlebank Street (adj 120), 110 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 Park Road Primary School in March 2026.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentweak
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 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
Keep up with Park Road Primary School
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 6
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 3 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
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 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Park Road Primary School
Questions parents ask about Park Road Primary School
When was Park Road Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Park Road Primary School in March 2026. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as weak; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as weak, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Park Road Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Park Road 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 Park Road Primary School?
If you live in Park Road 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 Park Road Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 6 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 3 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 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 Fife is 2 (the median across 160 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Park Road Primary School?
Park Road Primary School is at Park Road, Rosyth, DUNFERMLINE, DUNFERMLINE, KY11 2NH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)