St Crispin's School, Edinburgh
St Crispin's School is a special school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 89.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Crispin's School in detail
School in Scotland
St Crispin's 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 76 pupils and 3.8 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 33% speak English as an additional language.
24% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 18% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 89.1% in 2024/25, and 30.7% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to St Crispin's School are Kaimes School (0.6 miles), Dunedin School (2 miles), Royal Blind School (2.9 miles) and Braidburn Special School (3.3 miles).
Kaimes SchoolDunedin SchoolRoyal Blind SchoolBraidburn Special School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Shawfair Rail Station, about 2.9 miles away in a straight line.
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 St Crispin's School in March 2022.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- 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, 1 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 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 St Crispin's School
When was St Crispin's School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Crispin's School in March 2022.
What is the catchment area for St Crispin's School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Crispin's 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 Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Crispin's School?
If you live in St Crispin's School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Edinburgh City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Edinburgh City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Crispin's 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, 1 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 Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Crispin's School?
St Crispin's School is at 1 Burdiehouse Crescent, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH17 8EX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)