Reay Primary School, Thurso
Reay Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Thurso.
- Attendance
- 92.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Reay Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Reay 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.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 39 pupils, an average class size of 19.5 and 14.4 pupils per teacher.
23% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 92.3% in 2024/25, and 28.9% 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 52% full.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Reay Primary School.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Keoltaig Drive (at), 190 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 Reay Primary School in June 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentvery good
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Reay Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 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 Reay Primary School
When was Reay Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Reay Primary School in June 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as very good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Reay Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Reay 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 Highland. Highland publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Reay Primary School?
If you live in Reay Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Highland will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Highland - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Reay Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 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 Highland is 0 (the median across 195 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Reay Primary School?
Reay Primary School is at Reay, Thurso, Thurso, KW14 7RE.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)