Rattray Primary School, BLAIRGOWRIE
Rattray Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Blairgowrie.
- Attendance
- 90.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Rattray Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Rattray 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.
Rattray Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 231 pupils, an average class size of 23.1 and 15.4 pupils per teacher.
53% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 44% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
35% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 2% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 90.9% in 2024/25, and 31.4% 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 good (A); the school was 62% full.
Rattray Primary School in its own words
The school runs a breakfast club.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Rattray Primary School are Newhill Primary School (1.2 miles), St Stephen's RC Primary School (1.2 miles), Alyth Primary School (3.9 miles) and Coupar Angus Primary School (4 miles).
Newhill Primary SchoolSt Stephen's RC Primary SchoolAlyth Primary SchoolCoupar Angus Primary School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Rattray Primary School.
14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Honeyberry Drive (opposite), 70 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 Rattray Primary School in April 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
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 Rattray 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 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
Rattray Primary School
Questions parents ask about Rattray Primary School
When was Rattray Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Rattray Primary School in April 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Rattray Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Rattray 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 Perth & Kinross. Perth & Kinross publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Rattray Primary School?
If you live in Rattray Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Perth & Kinross will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Perth & Kinross - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Rattray 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Rattray Primary School?
Rattray Primary School is at High Street, Rattray, BLAIRGOWRIE, BLAIRGOWRIE, PH10 7DG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)