Strathburn School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Strathburn School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 95.1%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Strathburn School in detail
School in Scotland
Strathburn 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.
Strathburn School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 418 pupils, an average class size of 26.1 and 17.9 pupils per teacher.
14% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 35% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 13% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 23% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.1% in 2024/25, and 10.3% 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); the school was 87% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Strathburn School are Kellands School (0.5 miles), Uryside School (0.9 miles), Port Elphinstone School (1.2 miles) and Keithhall School (2.3 miles).
Kellands SchoolUryside SchoolPort Elphinstone SchoolKeithhall School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverurie Rail Station, about 760 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Mortimer's Lane (opposite), 170 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 Strathburn School in September 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 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
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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
- 2
- Children hurt
- 2
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, 2 serious and 3 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 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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Strathburn School
Questions parents ask about Strathburn School
When was Strathburn School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Strathburn School in September 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Strathburn School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Strathburn 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 Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Strathburn School?
If you live in Strathburn School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Strathburn 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, 2 serious and 3 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Strathburn School?
Strathburn School is at Strathburn Gardens, Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 4RY.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)