Seafield Primary School, BATHGATE
Seafield Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Bathgate.
- Attendance
- 92.9%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Seafield Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Seafield 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.
Seafield Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 105 pupils, an average class size of 21 and 13.1 pupils per teacher.
22% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 92.9% in 2024/25, and 23.1% 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 85% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Seafield Primary School are Murrayfield Primary School (1.2 miles), Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary School (1.5 miles), Blackburn Primary School (1.6 miles) and Boghall Primary School (1.6 miles).
Murrayfield Primary SchoolOur Lady Of Lourdes Primary SchoolBlackburn Primary SchoolBoghall Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is West Calder Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.
5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Primary School (at), 50 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 Seafield Primary School in December 2023.
- 1.3 Leadership of changegood
- 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 Seafield Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 4
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 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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Seafield Primary School
Questions parents ask about Seafield Primary School
When was Seafield Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Seafield Primary School in December 2023. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as 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 Seafield Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Seafield 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 West Lothian. West Lothian publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Seafield Primary School?
If you live in Seafield Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and West Lothian will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to West Lothian - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Seafield Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 4 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 3 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 West Lothian is 4 (the median across 88 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Seafield Primary School?
Seafield Primary School is at Cousland Terrace, Seafield, BATHGATE, BATHGATE, EH47 7BL.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)