St Sylvester's RC Primary School, MORAY
St Sylvester's RC Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Moray. It has a Roman Catholic religious character.
- Attendance
- 94.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
St Sylvester's RC Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
St Sylvester's RC 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 115 pupils, an average class size of 23 and 14.9 pupils per teacher.
39% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 12% speak English as an additional language.
4% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 14% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 94.1% in 2024/25, and 17.6% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as poor (C) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 51% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St Sylvester's RC Primary School are East End Primary School (0.2 miles), Linkwood Primary School (0.2 miles), West End Primary School (0.4 miles) and Greenwards Primary School (0.7 miles).
East End Primary SchoolLinkwood Primary SchoolWest End Primary SchoolGreenwards Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Elgin Rail Station, about 450 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Sylvester's School (at), 20 metres away.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St Sylvester's RC Primary School are Elgin Academy (0.8 miles) and Elgin High School (0.9 miles).
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 Sylvester's RC Primary School in June 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 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
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 5
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 4 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 Moray is 1 (the median across 53 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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St Sylvester's RC Primary School
Questions parents ask about St Sylvester's RC Primary School
When was St Sylvester's RC Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of St Sylvester's RC Primary School in June 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for St Sylvester's RC Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and St Sylvester's RC 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 Moray. Moray publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to St Sylvester's RC Primary School?
If you live in St Sylvester's RC Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Moray will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Moray - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near St Sylvester's RC Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 5 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 4 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 Moray is 1 (the median across 53 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St Sylvester's RC Primary School?
St Sylvester's RC Primary School is at Abbey Street, Elgin, MORAY, MORAY, IV30 1DA.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)