Towerbank Primary School, Edinburgh
Towerbank Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 95.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Towerbank Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Towerbank 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.
Towerbank Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 462 pupils, an average class size of 28.9 and 21 pupils per teacher.
10% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 31% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 37% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.4% in 2024/25, and 11.5% 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 satisfactory (B); the school was 73% full.
Towerbank Primary School in its own words
The school runs a breakfast club.
Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Towerbank Primary School are St John's RC Primary School (0.7 miles), Brunstane Primary School (0.9 miles), Duddingston Primary School (0.9 miles) and The Royal High Primary School (1.1 miles).
St John's RC Primary SchoolBrunstane Primary SchoolDuddingston Primary SchoolThe Royal High Primary School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Brunstane Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Portobello Town Hall (se-bound 1), 260 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 Towerbank Primary School in November 2025.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementvery good
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 Towerbank Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 12
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 12 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 8 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
3 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.
Commute and house prices
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Towerbank Primary School
Questions parents ask about Towerbank Primary School
When was Towerbank Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Towerbank Primary School in November 2025. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as very good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Towerbank Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Towerbank 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 Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Towerbank Primary School?
If you live in Towerbank Primary 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 Towerbank Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 12 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 8 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 3 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 Towerbank Primary School?
Towerbank Primary School is at Figgate Bank, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH15 1HX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)