Port Elphinstone School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Port Elphinstone School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 94.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Port Elphinstone School in detail
School in Scotland
Port Elphinstone 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.
Port Elphinstone School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 59 pupils, an average class size of 19.7 and 13.1 pupils per teacher.
22% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 10% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.4% in 2024/25, and 11.6% 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 38% full.
Port Elphinstone School in its own words
In its own words: "Our school roll has fluctuated over the last few years, and we now have three classes. In 1997 and 1998, two new classrooms were added onto our school, which are very bright and attractive. As well as our classrooms, we have a resource room which also houses the library and multi-media Internet computers."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Port Elphinstone School are Kellands School (0.7 miles), Strathburn School (1.2 miles), Keithhall School (1.7 miles) and Uryside School (1.8 miles).
Kellands SchoolStrathburn SchoolKeithhall SchoolUryside School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverurie Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Leslie Place (opposite), 130 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 Port Elphinstone School in May 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 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
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Port Elphinstone 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.
1 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Port Elphinstone School
Questions parents ask about Port Elphinstone School
When was Port Elphinstone School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Port Elphinstone School in May 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; 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 Port Elphinstone School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Port Elphinstone 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 Port Elphinstone School?
If you live in Port Elphinstone 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 Port Elphinstone 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. 1 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 Port Elphinstone School?
Port Elphinstone School is at School Road, Port Elphinstone Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 3XJ.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)