Pathways to Success, Dalkeith
Pathways to Success is a special school for pupils in Dalkeith.
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Pathways to Success in detail
School in Scotland
Pathways to Success 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.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Pathways to Success are Saltersgate School (1.6 miles), St Crispin's School (3.5 miles), Kaimes School (3.6 miles) and Dunedin School (4.8 miles).
Saltersgate SchoolSt Crispin's SchoolKaimes SchoolDunedin School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Eskbank Rail Station, about 1010 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).
2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Newbattle Abbey Crescent (at), 320 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 Pathways to Success in September 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Pathways to Success
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- 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, 1 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 Midlothian is 3 (the median across 39 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
Questions parents ask about Pathways to Success
When was Pathways to Success last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Pathways to Success in September 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as good; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Pathways to Success?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Pathways to Success 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 Midlothian. Midlothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Pathways to Success?
If you live in Pathways to Success's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Midlothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Midlothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Pathways to Success?
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, 1 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 Midlothian is 3 (the median across 39 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Pathways to Success?
Pathways to Success is at Newbattle Road, Dalkeith, Dalkeith, EH22 3LL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)