Stenness Community School, Orkney
Stenness Community School is a primary school for pupils in Orkney.
- Attendance
- 93.2%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Stenness Community School in detail
School in Scotland
Stenness Community 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.
Stenness Community School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 29 pupils, an average class size of 14.5 and 9.4 pupils per teacher.
24% 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 93.2% in 2024/25.
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as satisfactory (B); the school was 39% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Stenness Community School are Stromness Primary School (2.8 miles), Firth Primary School (4.3 miles) and Orphir Community School (4.4 miles).
Stromness Primary SchoolFirth Primary SchoolOrphir Community School
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Stenness Community School.
4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stennegeo (at), 90 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
Schools in Scotland are inspected by Education Scotland, not Ofsted. Find Stenness Community School's reports on the inspectorate's website.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
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Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 1
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 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 Orkney Islands is 0 (the median across 21 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 Stenness Community School
What is the catchment area for Stenness Community School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Stenness Community 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 Orkney Islands. Orkney Islands publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Stenness Community School?
If you live in Stenness Community School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Orkney Islands will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Orkney Islands - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Stenness Community School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 0 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 Orkney Islands is 0 (the median across 21 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Stenness Community School?
Stenness Community School is at Stenness, Orkney, Orkney, KW16 3LB.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)