Uryside School, ABERDEENSHIRE
Uryside School is a primary school for pupils in Aberdeenshire.
- Attendance
- 95.7%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Uryside School in detail
School in Scotland
Uryside 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.
Uryside School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 476 pupils, an average class size of 26.4 and 18.5 pupils per teacher.
9% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 32% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 1% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 26% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 95.7% in 2024/25, and 9.7% 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 81% full.
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Uryside School are Strathburn School (0.9 miles), Kellands School (1.3 miles), Port Elphinstone School (1.8 miles) and Keithhall School (2.1 miles).
Strathburn SchoolKellands SchoolPort Elphinstone SchoolKeithhall School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Inverurie Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Portstown Road (opposite), 190 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 Uryside 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
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
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, 0 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
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 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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Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Uryside School
Questions parents ask about Uryside School
What is the catchment area for Uryside School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Uryside 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 Uryside School?
If you live in Uryside 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 Uryside 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, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 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 Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Uryside School?
Uryside School is at Peregrine Drive, Inverurie, ABERDEENSHIRE, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB51 6AS.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)