Stanley Primary School, PERTH
Stanley Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Perth.
- Attendance
- 94.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Stanley Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Stanley 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.
Stanley Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 117 pupils, an average class size of 19.5 and 14.6 pupils per teacher.
38% of pupils have an additional support need recorded.
Attendance was 94.1% in 2024/25, and 17.5% 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 54% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Stanley Primary School are Guildtown Primary School (1.7 miles), Luncarty Primary School (2 miles), Auchtergaven Primary School (3 miles) and Murthly Primary School (3.1 miles).
Guildtown Primary SchoolLuncarty Primary SchoolAuchtergaven Primary SchoolMurthly Primary School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Stanley Primary School.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Cross (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 Stanley Primary School in March 2025.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 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 Stanley Primary School
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 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.
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Questions parents ask about Stanley Primary School
When was Stanley Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Stanley Primary School in March 2025. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; 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 Stanley Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Stanley 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 Stanley Primary School?
If you live in Stanley 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 Stanley 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, 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 Perth & Kinross is 1 (the median across 83 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Stanley Primary School?
Stanley Primary School is at The Square, Stanley, PERTH, PERTH, PH1 4LT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)